English Dictionary

defecate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/

動詞

自動詞 古語 他動詞

(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels. / (now rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc. / (now rare, transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）腸から糞便を排泄する / （稀な用法）濁りや不純物を浄化・除去する / （稀な用法、他動詞）何かを濁物として排出する、排泄する

The patient needed to defecate before the scan, so the nurse provided privacy.

検査の前に患者は排便する必要があり、看護師はプライバシーを確保した。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.

意味（2）

(now rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc.

[…] 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.

意味（3）

(now rare, transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.

defecates （ present singular third-person ）

defecating （ participle present ）

defecated （ participle past ）

defecated （ past ）