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excrement
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| excrementitious
| excrementive
| excrementize
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excrement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun excrement has 1 sense
- excrement(n = noun.substance) body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body; Array has particulars: bm, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool, fecula, wormcast, human waste, pee, piddle, piss, urine, water, weewee, barf, puke, vomit, vomitus, guano
is a kind of waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
CIDE DICTIONARY
excrement, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete.].
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure. [1913 Webster]
excrement, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.].
An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
"Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
excrement, n. (in sing. or pl.) faeces.
Derivative
excremental adj.
Etymology
F excr{eacute}ment or L excrementum (as EXCRETE)
THESAURUS
excrement
carrion, corruption, dandruff, decay, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, discharge, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, excreta, excretes, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scurf, scuz, slime, smut, snot, sordes, transudate, transudation, waste, waste matterROGET THESAURUS
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Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.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.
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