as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
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Recent Examples of excrement
Researchers fed the fish, and their excrement provided nutrients to the plants.
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Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
The virus is typically transmitted through rodent excrement.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
Bedbug excrement appears as black spots on bedding or furniture.
—Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025
Back in the ninth and 10th centuries, Nordic travelers started using farm animal excrement as a replacement for firewood when resources grew scarce.
—Claire Volkman, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
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Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
The virus is typically transmitted through rodent excrement.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
Bedbug excrement appears as black spots on bedding or furniture.
—Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025
Back in the ninth and 10th centuries, Nordic travelers started using farm animal excrement as a replacement for firewood when resources grew scarce.
—Claire Volkman, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excrement
Noun
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But be careful not to hit any of the rodents or the rodent dung.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.—
Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the first time ever, they could be allowed to do it over American soil.—
Edward Russell,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The crowd was filled with men and women whose daily jobs leave them with dirt under their nails and pride in their chests because of their impact on everyone’s lives.—
Salena Zito,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Alcaraz improved to 21-1 on clay this year, winning titles on the dirt in Rome — beating Sinner in the final after the Italian returned from his doping ban — and Monte Carlo.—
Jerome Pugmire,
Baltimore Sun,
6 June 2025
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“Excrement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrement. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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