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- Animal & plant biology - general words
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- Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
- Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- Animal physiology: fit & healthy
- Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- Animal physiology: the respiratory system
- Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- Animal reproduction
- Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses
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SMART Thesaurus: Animal physiology: urine & urinating
Synonyms and related words:
- excrete verb
- go to the bathroom idiom
- pass verb (EXCRETE)
- pass water idiom
- piddle noun
- piss noun
- piss verb
- powder your nose idiom
- relieve verb (URINATE)
- slash noun (TOILET)
- take a leak/have a leak idiom
- urethra noun
- uric adjective
- urinary adjective
- urinate verb
- wazz noun
- wee noun
- wee verb
- wet verb
- wet your pants idiom
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