Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of urinating; especially, morbidly frequent and scant urination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of voiding urine; urination; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physiology
urination
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the discharge of urine
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Examples
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* All* these games are thinly disguised micturition contests. jamisings
Hugging a tree and other things to do… « Awful Library Books 2010
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Such alfresco and civic micturition would also help get the old carbon footprint down to a bijou size three.
Can we have a Stop Making Stupid Bills bill? | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Textbooks can save your life but not your soul that first year, when even the mere act of micturition requires three weeks of planning.
Archive 2008-11-01 doyle 2008
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Alix suggests that "Kirsty Wark ... asked some fairly daft and muddled questions" in that Newsnight interview, whereas I reckoned she was more or less avoiding involuntary micturition in her big leather chair with beside-herself laughter at his utterly pathetic know-nothing feebleness.
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Textbooks can save your life but not your soul that first year, when even the mere act of micturition requires three weeks of planning.
What I know now.... doyle 2008
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I was careful with my micturition, making sure that I hit Page 362 in the longer book.
Let the Hate Flow Through You : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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We have further the drunk being portrayed as a ruminator, albeit an intoxicated one, attempting to find a point of reference in the dilapidated territory of the Tenderloin, and these thought processes result in an act of bemused micturition.
Vollmann’s Aesthetic Realism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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When Beck started talking about the rising number of junior high school students engaging in oral sex or began using the vulgar past participle for micturition as a synonym for "angry," the presence of a seven-year-old girl in the front row didn't seem to deter him.
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When Beck started talking about the rising number of junior high school students engaging in oral sex or began using the vulgar past participle for micturition as a synonym for "angry," the presence of a seven-year-old girl in the front row didn't seem to deter him.
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Cutting through the residual aromas of stale tobacco smoke, cheap perfume, oil-based paint, and piney woods deodorizer; cutting through the loo-air with a golden track, comes the smell of your own micturition, a smell heightened a hundredfold by your recent ingestion of asparagus.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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