Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to defecate
Participle: defecated
Gerund: defecating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | defecate |
| you | defecate |
| he;she;it | defecates |
| we | defecate |
| you | defecate |
| they | defecate |
Perfect
| I | have defecated |
| you | have defecated |
| he;she;it | has defecated |
| we | have defecated |
| you | have defecated |
| they | have defecated |
Past
| I | defecated |
| you | defecated |
| he;she;it | defecated |
| we | defecated |
| you | defecated |
| they | defecated |
Pluperfect
| I | had defecated |
| you | had defecated |
| he;she;it | had defecated |
| we | had defecated |
| you | had defecated |
| they | had defecated |
Future
| I | will defecate |
| you | will defecate |
| he;she;it | will defecate |
| we | will defecate |
| you | will defecate |
| they | will defecate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have defecated |
| you | will have defecated |
| he;she;it | will have defecated |
| we | will have defecated |
| you | will have defecated |
| they | will have defecated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | defecate |
| you | defecate |
| he;she;it | defecate |
| we | defecate |
| you | defecate |
| they | defecate |
Perfect
| I | have defecated |
| you | have defecated |
| he;she;it | have defecated |
| we | have defecated |
| you | have defecated |
| they | have defecated |
Imperfect
| I | defecated |
| you | defecated |
| he;she;it | defecated |
| we | defecated |
| you | defecated |
| they | defecated |
Pluperfect
| I | had defecated |
| you | had defecated |
| he;she;it | had defecated |
| we | had defecated |
| you | had defecated |
| they | had defecated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would defecate |
| you | would defecate |
| he;she;it | would defecate |
| we | would defecate |
| you | would defecate |
| they | would defecate |
Perfect
| I | would have defecated |
| you | would have defecated |
| he;she;it | would have defecated |
| we | would have defecated |
| you | would have defecated |
| they | would have defecated |
Imperative
| you | defecate |
| we | Let's defecate |
| you | defecate |
Verbs conjugated like 'defecate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'defecate'
defaecate,
defæcate,
desecate,
deaerate,
dedicate,
defalcate,
defease,
defeat,
defect,
deflate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- defecate
- shit
- excrete
- eliminate, urinate
- to expel feces from one's bowels
- cack, choke a darkie, crap, do a number two, do one's ease, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, ease oneself, move one's bowels, pinch a loaf, poo, pooh, poop, shart, shit, shite, take a dump, take a shit, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, void one's bowels
- originally euphemistic
- stool
Antonyms
- to regurgitate the contents of a stomach
- ingest, regurgitate
- to take into the body, as for digestion
- regurgitate, ingest
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1575, "to purify," from L.
defæcatus, pp. of
defæcare "cleanse from dregs, purify," from the phrase
de fæce "from dregs," pl.
fæces "feces." Excretory sense first recorded 1830 (
defecation), Amer.Eng., from Fr.
2. Borrowed from Latin dēfaecātus, the perfect passive participle of dēfaecō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also faeces; cognate with French déféquer. See: French '
déféquer'.
Sample Sentences
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[I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus. [1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:]
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[…] 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. [1744, Robert Boyle with Thomas Birch, edited by Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, volume 1, compilation of Certain phyſiological eſsays and other tracts written at diſtant times, and on ſeveral occaſions by the honourable Robert Boyle ; wherein ſome of the tracts are enlarged by experiments and the work is increaſed by the addition of a diſcourse about the abſolute reſt in bodies. by Robert Boyle, part VI: Certain Physiological Essays, and other tracts written at diſtant Times, eſsay 7: The Hiſtory of Fluidity and Firmneſs, the ſecond part: of Firmneſs, page 265:]
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Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […] [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 224:]