The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defecate \Def"e*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Defecating.]
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To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber.
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To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
We defecate the notion from materiality.
--Glanvill.Defecated from all the impurities of sense.
--Bp. Warburton.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of defecate English)
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Usage examples of "defecating".
Johnny snarled silently and was behind the defecating German in an instant.
Simple country people who had lived far from other human habitation all their lives, drinking at sweet clean springs and defecating carelessly in the open veld.
The mammoths wandered apart, feeding and defecating, shaking the moisture out of their fur.
The stink of walrus was almost overpowering, for it seemed they had been defecating on the same floe all winter.
These children defecating earnestly or weakly, according to their destiny, in the bushes?
There, the cranky indoor plumbing constantly grumbled at us like God to Noah, threatening the deluge, and Anatole swore if he lived through ten thousand mornings in Kinshasa he would never get used to defecating in the center of his home.
Despite the efficient iron walls and sentries, drunks roamed the lanes all night hotly pursued by furious superiors, horses broke loose and galloped about, snorting and defecating and knocking into things.
I had met him through Sullivan, who once said that he was as American as a slice of apple pie with a fly defecating on it.