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# excreting

«excreting» in Mova's school dictionary: **getting rid of waste from the body, such as urine (wee)…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Excreting is getting rid of waste from the body, such as urine (wee), faeces (poo) or sweat. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x1)
- All living things need excreting as a life process. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x2)
- Fish are excreting ammonia into the water. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x4)
- Sweat is a way of excreting water and salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/#x5)
- The body is excreting the medicine through the kidneys. [tree →](https://md.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).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excreting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excreting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.