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PRONUNCIATION OF EMUNCTION

emunction  [ɪˈmʌŋkʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMUNCTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Emunction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EMUNCTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of emunction in the English dictionary

The definition of emunction in the dictionary is the act of nose-wiping.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMUNCTION


adjunction
əˈdʒʌŋkʃən
cofunction
ˌkəʊˈfʌŋkʃən
compunction
kəmˈpʌŋkʃən
conjunction
kənˈdʒʌŋkʃən
defunction
dɪˈfʌŋkʃən
disfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
disjunction
dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən
dysfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
eigenfunction
ˈaɪɡənˌfʌŋkʃən
expunction
ɪkˈspʌŋkʃən
function
ˈfʌŋkʃən
hyperfunction
ˌhaɪpəˈfʌŋkʃən
injunction
ɪnˈdʒʌŋkʃən
interpunction
ˌɪntəˈpʌŋkʃən
inunction
ɪnˈʌŋkʃən
junction
ˈdʒʌŋkʃən
malfunction
mælˈfʌŋkʃən
multifunction
ˈmʌltɪˌfʌŋkʃən
thermojunction
ˌθɜːməʊˈdʒʌŋkʃən
unction
ˈʌŋkʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMUNCTION

emulous
emulously
emulousness
emulsible
emulsifiable
emulsification
emulsified
emulsifier
emulsifies
emulsify
emulsin
emulsion
emulsion paint
emulsionize
emulsive
emulsoid
emulsor
emunctories
emunctory
emunge

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMUNCTION

accreditation
action
attraction
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
introduction
production
protection
reaction
satisfaction
section
selection
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of emunction in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «emunction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMUNCTION

Find out the translation of emunction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of emunction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «emunction» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

emunction
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emunction
570 millions of speakers

English

emunction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

emunction
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

emunction
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

emunction
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

emunction
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

emunction
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

emunction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perpindahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

emunction
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

emunction
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

emunction
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perpindahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

emunction
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

emunction
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उद्रेक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

emunction
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emunction
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

emunction
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

emunction
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

emunction
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

emunction
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

emunction
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

emunction
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

emunction
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of emunction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMUNCTION»

The term «emunction» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.755 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMUNCTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «emunction» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «emunction» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about emunction

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMUNCTION»

Discover the use of emunction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to emunction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lectures on auto-intoxication in disease, or, Self-poisoning ...
Protective part played by the liver, which stops on their passage alkaloldal poisons coming from the intestine (Heeger), and destroys them. Experiments of Schtff. Role of the emunctory organs in the expulsion of poisons. Intestinal emunction ...
Charles Bouchard, 1906
2
The Animal alkaloids cadaveric and vital or, the ptomaines ...
normal but inadequate emunction, or when the production of deleterious materials is normal, but emunction insufficient, the emunctories being diseased or deranged. Gautier affirms that auto-intoxication may thus result from excessive  ...
A. M. Brown, 1889
3
International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
“Latent or dormant syphilis of the cord” simply means, it seems to me, that the spirochetes of long years ago have been harbored in the denser tissues and have not been dislodged by the free emunction to be brought about by a systematic ...
Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Charles Euchariste de Medicis Sajous, 1913
4
Medical Communications
Increased metabolism of tissue, wasting and loss of vital force, with probably imperfect emunction, and possibly auto-inocu- litti'in with resultant products of imperfect oxidation. Diminished digestive power ; renders more probable reduced ...
Massachusetts Medical Society, 1886
5
Lectures on Clinical Medicine
... would be an emunction, but an emunction insufficient for the lactic acid secreted too abundantly in consequence of a vice in nutrition, the nature of which has not yet been determined. It is then that the pains assume a character as to which ...
Armand Trousseau, 1873
6
Lectures on clinical medicine delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, ...
... constituents of the bone and soften them. The sweats would be an emunction, but an emunction insufficient for the lactic acid secreted too abundantly in consequence of a vice in nutrition, the nature of which has not yet been determined.
Armand Trousseau, 1872
7
Lectures on Clinical Medicine
... constituents of the bone and soften them. The sweats would be an emunction, but an emunction insufficient for the lactic acid secreted too abundantly in consequence of a vice in nutrition, the nature of which has not yet been determined.
A. Trousseau.Translated from the Edition of 1868 Sir John Rose Cormack,K.B.The New Sydenham Society, 1872
8
Archives of Pediatrics
... for irritative fever rom prmence of irritant matters in digestive tract. Increased mctabolism'of tissue, wasting and loss of vital force, with probably imperfect emunction, and possibly auto-inoculation with rsultant products of imperfect oxidation.
9
The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... customs officials empyreuma (em-pi-ROO-ma) a burnt smell an acrid empyreuma in the cellar emunction (ee-MUNG-shun) nose wiping a drippy cold requiring his constant and discreet emunction emunctory (ee-MUNG-to-ree) pert, to nose ...
David Grambs, 1997
10
Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal
The systemic debris may depend on emunction — equalized or unequalized emunction. Where the bowels, kidneys, skin and lungs are equally flushing there seems to be little if any rise of body temperature on bathing in, drinking or inhaling ...

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« EDUCALINGO. Emunction [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/emunction>. Jun 2026 ».
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