• IPA: /ˈdɛfɪkeɪt/
• IPA: /ˈdɛfɪkət/

defecate (defecates, present participle defecating; past and past participle defecated)

1. (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
2. (now rare) To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, page 224:

     Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […].

3. (now rare, transitive) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.

• (excrete feces) See Thesaurus:defecate

• defecation
• feces

• French: déféquer, aller à la selle, couler un bronze (colloquial)
• German: defäkieren, koten, ausleeren
• Italian: defecare, liberarsi
• Portuguese: defecar
• Russian: испражня́ться
• Spanish: defecar, ciscarse, cagar (colloquial), jiñar (vulgar), plantar un pino (colloquial)

defecate

1. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

   • Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.