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01. The waste products [excreted] by yeast in the beer-making process actually add flavor to the beer.02. Trees are very important to our environment because, unlike humans, they take in carbon dioxide and [excrete] oxygen.03. When an owl eats a mouse, it digests all the meat, and then [excretes] the fur and bones of the mouse in a small hard ball.04. Some doctors say vitamin pills are useless because most of the vitamins taken this way are simply [excreted] in the urine, rather than being absorbed into the blood stream.05. Dirt and other toxins are [excreted] through your pores when you sweat.06. The [excretion] of waste from our bodies is a continual process.07. The house where the old lady lived with her 35 cats had a terrible smell of [excrement].08. Approximately 20 million kilos of dog [excrement] are deposited on the streets of New York every year.09. Manure is the [excrement] of farm animals, and can be used as fertilizer.10. Some animals [excrete] toxic substances through their skin to deter predators.11. A person with poor kidney function often has trouble [excreting] excess fluids, and retains them in the body.12. Clams take in water, filter out their food, and then [excrete] the extra water.13. Sweat is part of our body's way of [excreting] toxins from the body.14. Any drugs which enter the body are generally [excreted] by the kidneys, though small amounts may pass into sweat, saliva and breast milk.15. When attacked, an octopus can [excrete] a dark, inky substance to confuse predators.
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Excrete — Ex*crete , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excreted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Excreting}.] [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See {Crisis}.] To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. The mucus thus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
excrete — index exude, purge (purify) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
excrete — 1610s, from L. excretus, pp. of excernere (see EXCREMENT (Cf. excrement)). Related: Excreted; excreting … Etymology dictionary
excrete — [v] discharge, usually liquified substance defecate, egest, ejaculate, eject, eliminate, emanate, evacuate, exhale, expel, exudate, exude, give off, leak, pass, perspire, produce, remove, secrete, sweat, throw off, urinate, void; concepts 179,185 … New thesaurus
excrete — ► VERB ▪ expel (a substance, especially a product of metabolism) as waste. DERIVATIVES excretion noun excretory adjective. ORIGIN Latin excernere sift out … English terms dictionary
excrete — [eks krēt′, ikskrēt′] vt., vi. excreted, excreting [< L excretus, pp. of excernere, to sift out < ex , out of + cernere, to sift: see HARVEST] 1. to separate (waste matter) from the blood or tissue and eliminate from the body, as through… … English World dictionary
excrete — UK [ɪkˈskriːt] / US [ɪkˈskrɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms excrete : present tense I/you/we/they excrete he/she/it excretes present participle excreting past tense excreted past participle excreted biology to get rid of liquid,… … English dictionary
excrete — [[t]ɪkskri͟ːt[/t]] excretes, excreting, excreted VERB When a person or animal excretes waste matter from their body, they get rid of it in faeces, urine, or sweat. [TECHNICAL or, FORMAL] [V n] Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt... [V n]… … English dictionary
excrete — to defecate Literally, to discharge from a body. It could therefore (but does not) refer to blood, sweat, tears, snot, urine, etc.: Soldiers lucky enough to find a soup kitchen discovered that boiling soup froze solid before they could… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
excrete — Ki o, kākā, hana lepo. ♦ Need to excrete, pu u ki o, pu aki o. ♦ Discomfort preceding excreting, hōkūkū … English-Hawaiian dictionary
