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egest

[ ee-jest, ih-jest ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to discharge, as from the body; void ( ingest ).


egest

/ ːˈɛ /

verb

  1. tr to excrete (waste material)
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپDz, noun
  • ˈپ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ·t adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of egest1

1600–10; < Latin ŧ ( us ) (past participle of ŧ ) carried out, equivalent to ŧ- e- 1 + ges- (variant of ger- ) carry + -tus past participle suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of egest1

C17: from Latin ŧ to carry out, from gerere to carry
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And wouldn’t you know, the Loser Community had to add digesting it — and egesting it — as subjects among the hundreds of songs entered, both in text and video.

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Second place receives a cute little squeeze toy of a shark that is more or less ingesting and egesting a human leg as you squeeze.

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And they egest, or spit out unpalatable objects, like this:

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We all egest a certain amount of psychological wreckage and roiling emotional waste over the course of a fully-lived life.

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