Thesaurus results for EXCREMENTS

excrement

noun

ˈek-skrə-mənt

as in dung

solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets

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Recent Examples of excrement Her mother didn't want Dutt to be raised with the stigma of being known as a Dalit of the Bhangi sub-caste, whose people were long compelled to remove excrement from latrine pits. —

Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024 The poop was exhaustively analyzed by a research team of more than a dozen scientists using advanced techniques, and even a synchrotron particle accelerator, to probe each piece of excrement down to the molecular level. —

Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024 The site at 1157 E. Taylor St. has faced its share of difficulties, as homeless residents previously set up camps there in squalid conditions, leaving trash, shopping carts and human excrement. —

Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024 This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up. —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for excrement

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Noun

Hundreds of barefoot pilgrims undertook a parikrama one morning, picking around heaps of cow dung dotting the road.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025
With antivenom hard to find in rural areas, some snakebite victims pay traditional healers with a chicken or a small goat to apply herbs, bones and even dung.

— Brian Otieno, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025