EXCREMENT


Meaning of EXCREMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

human

So there we are trying to fish out a bunch of keys from a three-foot pit full of human urine and excrement .

All you need is a clean water-supply and an efficient way of getting rid of human excrement .

Preventing the pollution of drinking water by untreated human excrement , for example, has long been recognised as a basic health concern.

And one of their main components was human excrement , since few houses have toilets in the poorer zones.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Boys with wicker baskets full of bricks and masonry hurry past; the streets stink and run with mud and excrement .

He stopped to wipe away the excrement , which blinded his eyes and coated his lips.

In my bed is a faint smell of excrement .

It smelled of damp mold and rat excrement .

It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement .

People from the neighborhood rushed in and threw the place up for grabs, smearing excrement on the walls.

Rotting food, excrement , broken glass had to be painstakingly cleaned up later.

The odor of excrement that is overpowering on certain tiers.

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