relieve oneself

English

Verb

relieve oneself (third-person singular simple present relieves oneself, present participle relieving oneself, simple past and past participle relieved oneself)

1. (euphemistic) To relieve oneself of a need to excrete waste: to urinate or defecate.
   • 1989, Snyder v. Harmon, 562 A.2d 307 (Pa. 1989) (Zappala, J., writing for the majority), Pennsylvania Supreme Court

     As they traveled along L.R. 33060, one of the passengers mentioned he had to relieve himself, so Barrett stopped the car along the berm of the road, which, unbeknown to the travelers, was directly adjacent to a strip mine.

2. (euphemistic, sexuality) To relieve oneself of a desire to orgasm: to masturbate to orgasm.
   • 2014, Abbie Smith, Celibate Sex: Musings on Being Loved, Single, Twisted, and Holy:

     Nevertheless, to relieve oneself takes the edge off the desire and doesn't take advantage of others.

Synonyms

• (pissing, shitting): See Thesaurus:urinate and Thesaurus:defecate
• (masturbating to orgasm): See Thesaurus:masturbate

Translations

euphemistically: to urinate or defecate — see also urinate,‎ defecate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解手 (zh) (jiěshǒu), 解溲 (jiěsōu), 便溺 (zh) (biànniào), 方便 (zh) (fāngbiàn)

• Finnish: käydä tarpeillaan
• French: se soulager (fr), faire ses besoins (fr)
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• German: seine Notdurft verrichten
• Japanese: 用を足す (ようをたす, yō o tasu)
• Russian: отправля́ть есте́ственные на́добности impf (otpravljátʹ jestéstvennyje nádobnosti), отпра́вить есте́ственные на́добности pf (otprávitʹ jestéstvennyje nádobnosti), справля́ть нужду impf (spravljátʹ nuždu), спра́вить нужду pf (správitʹ nuždu), облегча́ться (ru) impf (oblexčátʹsja), облегчи́ться (ru) pf (oblexčítʹsja)

euphemistically: to masturbate — see also masturbate

• Finnish: helpottaa oloaan
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