(ˈ)ek|skrēt, ikˈs-, usu -ēd.+V transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Latin excretus, past participle of excernere to sift out, separate, discharge (as feces), from ex- ex- (I) + cernere to sift — more at certain
1. : to separate and eliminate or discharge (waste, superfluous, or harmful material) from the blood or tissues in animals or from the active protoplasm in plants and animals
2. : to give off (as something expendable or in some way inferior)
the shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves — Virginia Woolf
a foundation excretes an extraordinary quantity of typed and mimeographed words — New Yorker