Secrete

Quick meaning: Secrete is an adjective meaning (transitive, figurative) To exude or yield.

Meaning

(transitive, figurative) To exude or yield.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To conceal.
2. (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
3. Archaic form of secret.
4. (obsolete, rare) Separated.

Example Sentences

Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.

Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.

Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.

If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.

Word Forms

• secretes
• secreting
• secreted

Synonyms for secrete

Depending on context, synonyms include secern, release.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include release, generate, hide, produce, cache, exude.

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