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Egest

/iːˈdʒɛst/

To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).

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    To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).

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WordDefinition
passverbTo change place.
eliminateverb(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
excreteverb(biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.

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excreteverb(biology, ambitransitive) To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
eliminateverb(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
passverbTo change place.
dischargenounTo free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
emitverb(transitive) To send out or give off.
voidnounContaining nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
feceateverb(rare) To discharge feces from the digestive tract.
defecateverb(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
excrementizeverb(archaic, intransitive) To defecate.
move one's bowelsverb(euphemistic) To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.
defaecateverbAlternative spelling of defecate. [(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.]
purgenounAn act or instance of purging.
exenterateverb(transitive) To disembowel; to eviscerate.
degutverb(transitive) To remove the guts from.
scournounDiarrhoea, in livestock; scouring.
pass stoolverbTo defecate.
disgestObsolete form of digest. [(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.]
digestnounThat which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
disembowelverb(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
do one's easementverb(euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels: to defecate.

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