Urined

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have discharged liquid waste from the kidneys through the urethra; to emit urine as a biological function; to expel bodily fluid produced by the urinary system
2. The act of releasing urine from the body; the process of voiding liquid metabolic waste; to perform the physiological elimination of fluid generated by the kidneys
3. To secrete and discharge urine; to rid the body of fluid waste via urination; the physiological release of liquid excreted by the urinary tract

Etymology: "Urined" is simply the past tense and past participle of "urine," so its history is that of the noun. The noun came into English in Middle English as "uryne," borrowed from Latin "ūrīna," which meant the same thing. Before Latin supplied the word, English had its own term for it: "land," from Old English "hland," which survives today only in a specialized sense, while "urine" displaced it. The Latin word traces back to an ancient Indo-European root meaning "water, liquid, milk," which also gave us "udder," and it is related to Old English "ūriġ," meaning "wet" or "moist." So the word for waste fluid is rooted in the same ancient idea of liquid that the English word "wet" carries.

Synonyms: urinated