effuse

Adjective

effuse (comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

1. Poured out freely; profuse.
   • So should our joy be very effuse.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn]...
2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
   • No wanton waste amid effuse expence1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC
3. Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
   • an effuse inflorescence
4. Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

IPA/ɪˈfjuːz/

effuse (third-person singular simple present effuses, present participle effusing, simple past and past participle effused)

1. (transitive) To emit; to give off.
2. (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
   • With gushing blood effused.1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
4. (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.

Noun

effuse

1. (obsolete) effusion; loss
   • Much effuse of blood.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...