Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do one's easement

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: do one's ease-ment
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To ease one's bowels: to defecate.

Dated

Example Sentences

"He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers."

Etymology

From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

does one's easement (present, singular) doing one's easement (participle, present) did one's easement (past) done one's easement (participle, past)

Phrases

do one's ease house of ease house of easement stool of easement

Synonyms

see Thesaurus:defecate

Questions

What does do one's easement mean?: To ease one's bowels: to defecate.
Where does do one's easement come from?: From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.

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