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URINATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate urine

Example:

Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Synonyms:

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "urinate" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "urinate"):

wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)

stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

urination (the discharge of urine)

urinator (a person who urinates)

urine (liquid excretory product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pass after the manner of urine

Example:

The sick men urinated blood

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "urinate" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) A sudden urge to urinate with little or no warning?

(OAB-q - Sudden Urge to Urinate with Little or No Warning, NCI Thesaurus)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q Short Form) A sudden urge to urinate with little or no warning?

(OAB-q Short Form - Sudden Urge to Urinate with Little or No Warning, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include: • Blood in your urine • A frequent urge to urinate • Pain when you urinate • Low back pain

(Bladder Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q Short Form) An uncomfortable urge to urinate?

(OAB-q Short Form - Uncomfortable Urge to Urinate, NCI Thesaurus)

Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a condition that causes discomfort or pain in the bladder and a need to urinate frequently and urgently.

(Interstitial Cystitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Sheriff Lee said they arrested one person for urinating in public, technically indecent exposure.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

You may have overactive bladder if you have two or more of these symptoms: • You urinate eight or more times a day or two or more times at night • You have the sudden, strong need to urinate immediately • You leak urine after a sudden, strong urge to urinate

(Overactive Bladder, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The following may be signs of kidney stones that need a doctor's help: • Extreme pain in your back or side that will not go away • Blood in your urine • Fever and chills • Vomiting • Urine that smells bad or looks cloudy • A burning feeling when you urinate

(Kidney Stones, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Then you urinate.

(Diabetes Insipidus, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

As they take in a blood meal, they urinate to dispose of the waste products.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)