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egest
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb egest has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
egest, v. t. [L. egestus, p. p. of egerere to carry out, to discharge; e out + gerere to carry.].
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. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
egest
barf, be seasick, be sick, bring up, chuck up, discharge, disgorge, effuse, eliminate, emit, excrete, extravasate, exudate, exude, feed the fish, gag, give off, heave, heave the gorge, keck, pass, puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, secrete, sick up, spew, throw up, transude, upchuck, vomit, weep
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