Third person singular present tense of defecate; eliminates waste from the body.
From Latin 'defaecare.' The '-ates' ending marks the third person singular present tense in English, formed regularly from the base verb.
This is one of those words that sounds formal and clinical in English but is actually based on words meaning 'dregs' and 'sediment'—our ancestors borrowed Latin terms for natural bodily functions to make them sound more serious in formal medical contexts.
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