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.

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  • 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

  • * All* these games are thinly disguised micturition contests. jamisings

    Hugging a tree and other things to do… « Awful Library Books 2010

  • 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

  • Textbooks can save your life but not your soul that first year, when even the mere act of micturition requires three weeks of planning.

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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.

    Alix Mortimer: Suggesting Osborne Not Up To Job 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Happy 3rd Birthday, KFAQ - BatesLine 2005

  • 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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