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excrement

[ ek-skruh-muhnt ]

noun

  1. waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces.


excrement

/ ˌɛkskrɪmɛnˈtɪʃəs; ˈɛkskrɪmənt; ˌɛkskrɪˈmɛntəl /

noun

  1. waste matter discharged from the body, esp faeces; excreta
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Derived Forms

  • excremental, adjective
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Other Words From

  • ex·cre·men·tous [ek-skr, uh, -, men, -t, uh, s], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of excrement1

1525–35; < Latin excrēmentum, equivalent to excrē- (perfect stem of excernere to excrete ) + -mentum -ment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of excrement1

C16: from Latin excrēmentum, from excernere to sift, excrete
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Example Sentences

It’s a big steaming bag of excrement that used to be the United States.

From Salon

The family had been living in a house with "rubbish all over the floor and human excrement", the trial heard.

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Only those flippant idiots who spread their vile verbal excrement on a variety of media platforms to feather their own nest think otherwise.

From Salon

So they did a gut check—they went hunting for excrement and vomit from the Polish Basin, a region of central Europe with an extensive record of fossil bones and paleoclimate data.

He said campfires on dry ground were dangerous and campers often left litter and human excrement.

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