defecate

Other forms of defecate

past tense

defecated·

present participle

defecating·

third person

defecates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defecate

What does defecate mean?

defecate means "have a bowel movement".

How many syllables are in defecate?

defecate has 3 syllables and divides as de-fe-cate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for defecate?

Close synonyms include stool, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defecate a common word?

defecate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.