excretion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=cre=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

excretion, n. [Cf. F. excrétion.].

•  The act of excreting.  [1913 Webster]

  "To promote secretion and excretion."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is excreted; excrement.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

excretion

cleaning out, clearance, clearing, defecation, depletion, discharging cargo, drainage, draining, effusion, egress, elimination, emptying, evacuation, exfiltration, exhausting, exhaustion, external secretion, extravasation, exudation, filtering, filtration, internal secretion, lacrimation, lactation, leaching, lixiviation, off-loading, ooze, oozing, percolating, percolation, removal, secernment, secreta, secretion, seep, seepage, straining, transudation, unloading, venting, voidance, voiding, weep, weeping

ROGET THESAURUS

excretion

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.