egest

Other forms of egest

past tense

egested·

present participle

egesting·

third person

egests·

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 egest

What does egest mean?

egest means "eliminate from the body".

How many syllables are in egest?

egest has 2 syllables: e-gest. The stress falls on "gest".

What is another word for egest?

Close synonyms include excrete, eliminate, pass. 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 egest a common word?

egest 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.