English Dictionary

defecate

/ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/

verb

(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.

The dog needs to defecate before we go for a walk.

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.