urine
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urine
- /ˈjʊəɹɪn/ UK
- /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/ UK
- /ˈjʊɹɪn/ US
- /ˈjɝɪn/ US
- /ˈjʉːəɹɪn/ Australia
- /jʊˈɾɪn/ Philippines
- /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/ Ireland, New Zealand
Rhymes with -ʊəɹɪn, -ʊəɹaɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.
noun urines
- Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra. An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
verb urines · urining · urined
- To urinate. He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine.
