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Egest

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

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Manner of action 32

Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Cat 76% connected

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…

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Chuck 76% connected

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Defecate 76% connected

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

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Disgorge 76% connected

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…

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Empty 76% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Evacuate 76% connected

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

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Exudate 76% connected

To exude.

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Exude 76% connected

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

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Honk 76% connected

The cry of a wild goose.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Ooze 76% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

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Pee 76% connected

See 1st Pea.

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Perspire 76% connected

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

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Piddle 76% connected

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

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Piss 76% connected

To discharge urine, to urinate.

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Puddle 76% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Puke 76% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Purge 76% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Regorge 76% connected

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

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Regurgitate 76% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Retch 76% connected

To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

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Sick 76% connected

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

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Spew 76% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Spue 76% connected

See Spew.

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Stool 76% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Sweat 76% connected

of Sweat

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Transude 76% connected

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

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Urinate 76% connected

To discharge urine; to make water.

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Void 76% connected

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Wee 76% connected

A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.

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Broader term 5

Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Elimination 74% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Elimination 74% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Synonym 3

Eliminate 92% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Excrete 92% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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