as in to secrete
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to pass (waste matter) from the body or from an organ in the body
excrete sweat The kidneys excrete toxins.
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Recent Examples of excrete
Any extra water-soluble nutrients your body doesn't use are excreted through your pee.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 17 Feb. 2025
Once ingested by a human, methylmercury isn’t easily excreted and can quickly cross the digestive tract, the blood-brain barrier, and the placenta.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 12 Feb. 2025
Elephants eat wild coffee cherries, digest them, and excrete the beans.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Bell said lab tests confirmed mold byproducts were excreted in Locke’s urine, showing his exposure to mold toxicity.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2025
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When handled, these treefrogs secrete a sticky toxin as a defense, which can be irritating to mucous membranes of people or pets who make contact with them.—
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To check whether tumor cells were secreting something that primed the lungs to host them, Altea-Manzano and colleagues grew pieces of mouse mammary tumor in a dish, then collected the liquid containing all the cellular secretions.—
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His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.—
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But two days after Trump retook the White House this year on promises of tightening America’s borders and expelling violent criminals, Parris found himself at a red light in his Arizona neighborhood, surrounded by unmarked SUVs.—
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The cook was later eliminated during the sixth episode of the season.—
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Vietnam offer to drop tariffs not enough On Monday morning, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNBC even Vietnam's offer to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.—
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“Excrete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrete. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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