relieve oneself

Questions about relieve oneself

What does relieve oneself mean?

relieve oneself means "eliminate urine".

What is another word for relieve oneself?

Close synonyms include make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate. 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 relieve oneself a common word?

relieve oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.