pass water

pass water
verb
eliminate urine (Freq. 1)
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Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

• Syn:
• Derivationally related forms:
↑pee (for: ↑pee), ↑peeing (for: ↑pee), ↑piss (for: ↑piss), ↑pisser (for: ↑piss), ↑pissing (for: ↑piss), ↑micturition (for: ↑micturate), ↑piddle (for: ↑piddle), ↑urination (for: ↑urinate), ↑urine (for: ↑urinate), ↑urinator (for: ↑urinate)
• Hypernyms: ↑excrete, ↑egest, ↑eliminate, ↑pass
• Hyponyms: ↑wet, ↑stale
• Verb Group:
↑stool, ↑defecate, ↑shit, ↑take a shit, ↑take a crap, ↑ca-ca, ↑crap, ↑make, ↑urinate
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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pass water
To urinate
● water

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pass water formal phrase
to make liquid waste leave your bladder
Thesaurus: going to the toilethyponym
Main entry: pass

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urinate

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pass water
medical : to send urine out of the body : ↑urinate

a patient who is finding it difficult to pass water

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Main Entry: ↑water

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pass ˈwater idiom
(formal) to ↑urinate
Main entry: ↑passidiom

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