dejeção

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.ʒeˈsɐ̃w̃/ [de.ʒeˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.ʒɛˈsɐ̃w̃/

  • Hyphenation: de‧je‧ção

Noun

dejeção f (plural dejeções)

  1. dejection (a state of melancholy or depression)
    Synonym: desânimo
  2. (physiology) evacuation; discharge (the act of expelling substance, especially faeces, from the body)
    Synonyms: evacuação, ejeção
  3. (earth science) material expelled or deposited by natural forces, such as alluvium and scoria
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