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ˈɛk skrə məntex·cre·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory productnoun

    waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. EXCREMENTnoun

    That which is thrown out as useless, noxious, or corrupted from the natural passages of the body.

    Etymology: excrementum, Latin.

    We see that those excrements, that are of the first digestion, smell the worst; as the excrements from the belly. Francis Bacon.

    It fares with politick bodies as with the physical; each would convert all into their own proper substance, and cast forth as excrement what will not so be changed. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

    Their sordid avarice rakes
    In excrements, and hires the very jakes. John Dryden, Juv. Sat. 3.

    Farce, in itself, is of a nasty scent;
    But the gain smells not of the excrement Dryden.

    You may find, by dissection, not only their stomachs full of meat, but their intestines full of excrement. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

    The excrements of horses are nothing but hay, and, as such, combustible. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

Wikipedia

  1. excrement

    Feces (or faeces), known colloquially and in slang as poo and poop, are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine. Feces contain a relatively small amount of metabolic waste products such as bacterially altered bilirubin, and dead epithelial cells from the lining of the gut.Feces are discharged through the anus or cloaca during defecation. Feces can be used as fertilizer or soil conditioner in agriculture. They can also be burned as fuel or dried and used for construction. Some medicinal uses have been found. In the case of human feces, fecal transplants or fecal bacteriotherapy are in use. Urine and feces together are called excreta.

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  1. excrement

    Excrement refers to waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces or urine, as a result of the process of digestion. It can be from humans or other animals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Excrementnoun

    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

  2. Excrementnoun

    an excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth

  3. Etymology: [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Excrement

    eks′kre-ment, n. useless matter discharged from the animal system: dung.—adjs. Excrement′al, Excrementi′tial, Excrementi′tious, pertaining to or containing excrement. [L. excrementumexcernĕreex, out, cernĕre, to sift.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of excrement in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of excrement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of excrement in a Sentence

  1. Norman O. Brown:

    In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  2. Gene Spafford, 1992:

    Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

  3. Anand Arya:

    This land is not meant for any of those things. The biodiversity of the land has been completely destroyed, where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains!

  4. Anand Arya:

    Where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains!

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