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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
excrete
 
SYLLABICATION:ex·crete
PRONUNCIATION:  k-skrt
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: ex·cret·ed, ex·cret·ing, ex·cretes
To separate and discharge (waste matter) from the blood, tissues, or organs.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin excernere, excrt- : ex-, ex- + cernere, to separate; see krei- in Appendix I.
 
 
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