excreted

past tense of excrete

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Recent Examples of excreted By binding to cholesterol in the small intestine, cholesterol is not absorbed into the bloodstream and is instead excreted from the body. Jennifer Moll, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2025 The byproducts of this process—such as ammonia—must be filtered out and excreted by the kidneys. Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 24 Sep. 2025 And maybe that meal has been excreted by a microbe. Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025 During the 30-day experiment, rats on a diet comprised of 60% fat – far higher than the 35% to 40% typically seen in human diets – excreted more fat after eating the microbeads, but without side effects or blood sugar fluctuations. Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The fecal tests revealed that these rats excreted more undigested fat in their waste, with no signs of gut discomfort. Jay Kakade august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025 Ethylmercury is excreted much more quickly from the body. Joseph Choi, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excreted
Verb
  • Melatonin Melatonin is a hormone secreted primarily by the pineal gland (located deep in the brain).
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Or is there something murkier here, the leftovers of words or ideas secreted behind the picture frames or even in the very walls themselves?
    Katie da Cunha Lewin September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pearson, expelled from the Tennessee House in 2023 after leading a gun control protest, was later reappointed and won a special election, cementing his status as a rising progressive voice.
    Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The elder Mamdani grew up in Uganda, in East Africa, in a community of Ugandans of Indian descent, known as the Bayindi, who played a prominent role in the country until Idi Amin expelled them en masse in 1972.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Padres were eliminated from the playoffs in the Wild Card round, and because of Wrigley Field's century-old accommodations, the umpire crew was forced to exit the game through the visitors' dugout immediately after San Diego's season had come to a screeching halt.
    Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The annual total – now up to 1,563 cases since January – is the highest by a significant margin since measles was declared eliminated in the US a quarter-century ago.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The identities of the two boys and their cause of death were not immediately released, but foul play is not suspected, according to WFAA.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fans across the globe are now accusing her of using AI in her promotional videos, which were released in the form of a scavenger hunt on Google this weekend.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Excreted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excreted. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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