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# excreting

verb -ing form of excrete (excrete, excretes, excreted, excreting)

«excreting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Excreting is getting rid of waste from the body, such as urine (wee), faeces (poo) or sweat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#m1)
2. In plants and other living things, excreting means pushing out waste materials they do not need. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, excretion is one of the life processes of living things (MRS GREN: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition). Kidneys excrete waste in urine; skin excretes sweat; lungs get rid of carbon dioxide. Phrases: «excreting waste», «excreting through the kidneys».

### Examples

- The kidneys are always excreting waste in urine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x1)
- All living things need excreting as a life process. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x2)
- Fish are excreting ammonia into the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x3)
- Plants get rid of oxygen as waste through their leaves, a kind of excreting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x4)
- Sweat is a way of excreting water and salt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x5)
- The body is excreting the medicine through the kidneys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x6)

### Note

Science word; noun: excretion. Do not confuse with «secrete» (to make and release something useful, like saliva) or with «egestion» (getting rid of undigested food). Spelling: excrete (one t), excreting (drop the e).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excreting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excreting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excreting.html) on Mova free.