secretes

Verb (1)

secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

1. (transitive, usually, glands) 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, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology

   Synonyms:

   secern

2. (figuratively, transitive) 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: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)

Verb (2)

secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

1. (transitive) To conceal.
   • With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

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