英:['edʒəst]
美:['edʒəst]
英:['edʒəst]
美:['edʒəst]
noun
the act or process of discharging undigested or waste material from a cell or organismspecifically: defecation
"排出,排泄,驱逐",尤指 "排便",约于1600年,源自拉丁语 egestus,是 egerere 的过去分词,意为 "带出,排出,呕吐",由 ex-(见 ex-)的同化形式和 gerere "携带,承载"(见 gest)组成。与 ingest 相反。相关词汇: Egested; egesting; egesta。
Middle English egestioun, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French egestion, borrowed from Latin ēgestiōn-, ēgestiō, from ēges-, variant stem of ēgerere "to carry away, remove, discharge" (from ē- e- >entry 1 + gerere "to carry, bear") + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at jest >entry 1
The first known use of egestion was in 1547
1 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.
2 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.
3 And they egest, or spit out unpalatable objects, like this:
4 We all egest a certain amount of psychological wreckage and roiling emotional waste over the course of a fully-lived life.