Sekirov Dictionary

secrete

/sɪˈkɹiːt/

verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5

verb3

•
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know. — 1842
•
(figurative) To exude or yield.
- 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. — 1863
•
To conceal.
- 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. — 1997

adjective1

(no longer used, rare) Separated; discrete.

forms

secreted · secreting · secretes · secreteth · secretest

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