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Several parents also said their children uncharacteristically began urinating and defecating in their rooms because they were locked out of bathrooms overnight.
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Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 8 May 2024
Death causes muscle relaxation and can lead animals to defecate or urinate post mortem.
—Harri Weber, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
Eventually, Doyle said, that person defecated on himself.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 8 May 2024
The anger boiled over in 2013, when residents began complaining about people sleeping in alleyways and urinating and defecating in the city’s downtown area, a busy corridor of restaurants, coffee shops and businesses.
—Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Another rather amusing survival tactic is a bit akin to necessary constipation: Newborn okapi don’t defecate until at least a month after birth, lest a nearby leopard sniff out the vulnerable baby.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
And in October, an EasyJet flight from the Spanish island of Tenerife to London was canceled after a passenger defecated on the bathroom floor.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
At one point, there were more than a dozen tents across the street, and occupants used drugs, threw bottles of urine onto school property and openly defecated, Hernandez said.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
The flight made it to cruising altitude before the animal defecated.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 8 May 2024
Death causes muscle relaxation and can lead animals to defecate or urinate post mortem.
—Harri Weber, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
Eventually, Doyle said, that person defecated on himself.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 8 May 2024
The anger boiled over in 2013, when residents began complaining about people sleeping in alleyways and urinating and defecating in the city’s downtown area, a busy corridor of restaurants, coffee shops and businesses.
—Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Another rather amusing survival tactic is a bit akin to necessary constipation: Newborn okapi don’t defecate until at least a month after birth, lest a nearby leopard sniff out the vulnerable baby.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
And in October, an EasyJet flight from the Spanish island of Tenerife to London was canceled after a passenger defecated on the bathroom floor.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
At one point, there were more than a dozen tents across the street, and occupants used drugs, threw bottles of urine onto school property and openly defecated, Hernandez said.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
The flight made it to cruising altitude before the animal defecated.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
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defecate
verb
def·e·cate
variants
or chiefly British defaecate
defecated; defecating
: to discharge from the anus
: to discharge feces from the bowels
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