Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

Belgian Dramatist

Mary Roach

I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale - even for me.

American Author

Jane Velez-Mitchell

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

American Journalist

Rose George

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

British Journalist

Robert Del Naja

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

British Artist

Mike Tyson

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

American Boxer

Defecate is a formal term, more clinical than everyday words like 'poop'.

Formality Level

Using 'defecate' in public or social situations might be viewed as indelicate or impolite.

Public Sensitivity

Defecate is used frequently in medical or health contexts to discuss bowel movements.

Medical Context

 want to make it you know goal to really not have open defecation do you think there's any way that you know the world could come close to that that's only 13 years I know okay I think it's happening so rapidly I mean the last two and a half decades two and a half billion

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 And I think that's a mistake. And there's some indications around the world that this is starting to change. One example is sanitation. We know that a million and a half children die a year from diarrhea and a lot of it is because of open defecation.

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 toilet that Hannah's family used the only one in her neighborhood was a shabby and unhygenic pit at night when it wasn't safe to venture out even to this toilet they resort to find toilets defecating in a plastic bag and then in

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 to save energy for her babies a female has to cut her own energy use almost to nothing special hormones slow her to a standstill and she goes into a deep sleep that will last for months she won't eat drink or defecate she'll

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 To save energy for her babies, a female has to cut her own energy use almost to nothing. Special hormones slow her to a standstill and she goes into a deep sleep that will last for months. She won't eat, drink or defecate.

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 a hole used for urinating, defecating and reproduction— and then shooting it back out with a loud pop. These pops are no more dangerous than a sea lion’s stench, but they are effective at scaring off would-be predators.

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 to be literally defecating on himself, talking nothing that made any sense, and they brought him into the hospital. So these three psychiatrists, after about two or three weeks of observation, laid him down on a table,

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 Sloths are stealth ninjas, and they rarely leave the safety of the canopy -- except to defecate, which they do about once a week at the base of a tree. Now, this risky and energetic behavior has long been a mystery,

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 the men sometimes come up for fresh air otherwise they eat sleep and defecate inside the sub this one stretches 60 feet and can carry about six tons of coke enough to fill an entire dump truck