Egest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Egest \E*gest"\, v. t. [L. egestus, p. p. of egerere to carry
     out, to discharge; e out + gerere to carry.] (Physiol.)
     To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as
     the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to
     excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  egest
       v : eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: {excrete},
            {eliminate}, {pass}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "egest":
     barf, be seasick, be sick, bring up, chuck up, discharge, disgorge,
     effuse, eliminate, emit, excrete, extravasate, exudate, exude,
     feed the fish, gag, give off, heave, heave the gorge, keck, pass,
     puke, regurgitate, reject, retch, secrete, sick up, spew, throw up,
     transude, upchuck, vomit, weep