excreate

English

Etymology

Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

Verb

excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

  1. (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for excreate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

excreāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of excreō
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