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excrete

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ex·crete /ɪkˈskriːt/ verb [intransitive, transitive]  formalHBH to get rid of waste material from your body through your bowels, your skin etc 排泄 secrete
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excreteThe majority of cortisol is either metabolized in various tissues or conjugated in the liver and excreted.Worm casts have been shown to contain enzymes which continue to break down organic matter even after they have been excreted.These are then excreted and, should they prove to have a useful, coincidental effect, the bacteria thrive.Ciprofloxacin is largely excreted as an unchanged substance and elimination is predominantly via the kidneys.Flakes of a fatty substance are excreted from glands between the joints on the underside of the worker bee's abdomen.A second bug experienced a mutation that allowed it to make use of the acetate excreted from the first.The type of light chain excreted in the urine may be identified by performing immuno-electrophoresis on a concentrated urine specimen. 173.Yeast cells struggling to survive under suffocating conditions quickly excrete the ethanol fragments because they are basically poisonous.
Origin excrete (1600-1700) Latin excretus, past participle of excernere to separate out, from cernere to separate
ex·crete verbChineseSyllable
get Corpus rid material to of waste


excrete
excrete /ɪkˈskriːt/ verb [intransitive and transitive]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: Latin
 Origin: excretus, past participle of excernere 'to separate out', from cernere 'to separate'
formal to get rid of waste material from your body through your bowels, your skin etc ⇨ secrete


ex·creteBrE /ɪkˈskriːt/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈskriːt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they excrete BrE /ɪkˈskriːt/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪkˈskriːt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it excretes BrE /ɪkˈskriːts/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪkˈskriːts/ 🔊past simple excreted BrE /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ 🔊past participle excreted BrE /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪkˈskriːtɪd/ 🔊 -ing form excreting BrE /ɪkˈskriːtɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪkˈskriːtɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] (specialist) to pass solid or liquid waste matter from the body 排泄 ex·cre·tion BrE /ɪkˈskriːʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈskriːʃn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable]