defecate

English

Alternative forms

defæcate (archaic)
defaecate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfaecātus, the perfect passive participle of dēfaecō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also faeces; cognate with French déféquer.

Pronunciation

(verb)

IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/
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(adjective)

IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfɪkət/
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Verb

defecate (third-person singular simple present defecates, present participle defecating, simple past and past participle defecated)

(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
(transitive, archaic)
1. To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
2. (also figurative) To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
  - 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:
    [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.
  - 1744, Robert Boyle with Thomas Birch, edited by Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author‎^[1], volume 1, compilation of Certain phyſiological eſsays and other tracts written at diſtant times, and on ſeveral occaſions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein ſome of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increaſed by the addition of a diſcourse about the abſolute reſt in bodies. by Robert Boyle, part VI: Certain Physiological Essays, and other tracts written at diſtant Times, eſsay 7: The Hiſtory of Fluidity and Firmneſs, the ſecond part: of Firmneſs, page 265:
    […] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.
  - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 224:
    Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […]

Synonyms

(excrete feces): See Thesaurus:defecate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

expel feces from one's bowels — see also poop,‎ poo,‎ shit

Arabic: تَغَوَّطَ (taḡawwaṭa)
Armenian: արտաթորել (artatʻorel), կղկղել (hy) (kġkġel), ծրտել (hy) (crtel) (of birds)
Assamese: হগা (hoga) (informal), পাইখেনা কৰা (paikhena kora) (formal)
Azerbaijani: qığlamaq
Bashkir: сысыу (sısıw)
Belarusian: спаражня́цца impf (sparažnjácca), ка́каць impf (kákacʹ) (childish or colloquial), сраць (sracʹ) (vulgar)
Bulgarian: акам (akam), сера (sera)
Burmese: အီးပါ (my) (i:pa), ဓာတ်သွား (my) (dhatswa:), ကျင်ကြီးစွန့် (my) (kyangkri:cwan.), မစင်စွန့် (my) (ma.cangcwan.), ဝမ်းသွား (my) (wam:swa:), အခင်းကြီးသွား (my) (a.hkang:kri:swa:), ချေးပါ (my) (hkye:pa)
Catalan: defecar (ca)
Cebuano: hugaw
Chickasaw: aya
Chinese:
Cantonese: 屙屎 (o¹ si²)

Hokkien: 放屎 (zh-min-nan) (pàng-sái)

Mandarin: 大便 (zh) (dàbiàn), 拉屎 (zh) (lāshǐ), 排大便 (pái dàbiàn), 大解 (zh) (dàjiě)
Czech: vyprázdnit se, kálet (cs), vykálet se
Danish: defækere
Dutch: poepen (nl), een bruine trui breien (colloquial)
Egyptian:

(fgn)
Esperanto: feki (eo), koti (eo)
Finnish: ulostaa (fi)
French: déféquer (fr), aller à la selle (fr), couler un bronze (fr) (colloquial)
Galician: defecar
German: defäkieren (de), koten (de)
Greek: αφοδεύω (el) (afodévo)
Ancient Greek: ἀφοδεύω (aphodeúō)
Hindi: हगना (hi) (hagnā), मलत्याग करना (malatyāg karnā)
Hungarian: székel (hu)
Ido: fekifar (io)
Ilocano: agtae
Interlingua: defecar
Irish: cac (ga), do chac a dhéanamh
Italian: defecare (it), liberarsi (it)
Japanese: 排便する (ja) (はいべんする, haiben suru)
Jarai: eh
Javanese: ꦔꦶꦱꦶꦁ (ngising), ꦧꦼꦧꦚꦸ (bebanyu), ꦮꦮꦿꦠꦤ꧀ (wawratan), ꦧꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦠꦤ꧀ (bobotan)
Kapampangan: takla
Kazakh: тышу (tyşu)
Khmer: បត់ជើងធំ (bɑtcəəngthum), បន្ទោរបង់ (bântoŭrbâng)
Korean: 배변하다 (ko) (baebyeonhada), 대변을 보다 (daebyeoneul boda)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rîtin (ku), gû kirin (ku)
Latin: defaeco, cuniō
Malay: berak (ms)
Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠮᠪᡳ (fajambi)
Maori: whakatikotiko, tiko, roke
Mongolian: баах (mn) (baax)
Ngazidja Comorian: hunya
Occitan: defecar (oc), cagar (oc) (vulgar)
Old English: sċītan
Polish: wypróżniać się impf, wypróżnić się pf, defekować (pl) impf, zdefekować pf
Portuguese: defecar (pt)
Quechua: akay (qu), ismay
Romanian: defeca (ro), căca (ro) (vulgar)
Russian: испражня́ться (ru) impf (ispražnjátʹsja), (childish or colloquial) ка́кать (ru) impf (kákatʹ), (vulgar) срать (ru) impf (sratʹ)
Sanskrit: हदति (hadati)
Spanish: defecar (es), ciscarse (es), cagar (es) (colloquial), jiñar (es) (vulgar), plantar un pino (colloquial)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ha avföring , (colloquial) bajsa (sv), (vulgar) skita (sv), defekera
Tagalog: tumae, dumumi
Tatar: тычу (tıçu)
Thai: อุจจาระ (th) (ùt-jaa-rá), อึ (th) (ʉ̀), ไปทุ่ง
Turkish: dışkılamak (tr), sıçmak (tr), pislemek (tr) (animals)
Ottoman Turkish: صیچمق (sıçmak)
Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎀 (ḫrả)
Ukrainian: випоро́жнюватися impf (vyporóžnjuvatysja), ка́кати impf (kákaty) (childish or colloquial), сра́ти (uk) impf (sráty) (vulgar)
Vietnamese: đại tiện (vi)
Welsh: ysgarthu (cy)

Adjective

defecate (comparative more defecate, superlative most defecate)

(obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
- 1699, William Bates, Spiritual Perfection, unfolded and enforced:
  Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

Anagrams

feceated

Italian

Verb

defecate

second-person plural present and imperative of defecare

Latin

Verb

dēfecāte

second-person plural present active imperative of dēfecō

Spanish

Verb

defecate

second-person singular voseo imperative of defecar combined with te