Exude
[ɪg'zjuːd;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zud]
Definition
(verb.) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; 'exude sweat through the pores'.
(verb.) make apparent by one's mood or behavior; 'She exudes great confidence'.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
(v. i.) To flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Excrete, secrete, discharge (by pores), throw out.
v. n. Transude, ooze, be excreted, be secreted, pass by pores.
Edited by Dinah
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AFFIRM_and_CURSE]
Checked by Kenneth
Definition
v.t. to discharge by sweating: to discharge through pores or incisions as sweat moisture &c.—v.i. to flow out of a body through the pores.—n. Exudā′tion act of exuding or discharging through pores: that which is exuded.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- Obeying her, he shambled out, and Eugene Wrayburn saw the tears exude from between the little creature's fingers as she kept her hand before her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The tree from which the gum exudes grows to the height of eighty, and sometimes to one hundred feet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The sap, or juice, as it exudes has the appearance of milk, but gradually changes to a yellow color and is about the thickness of treacle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By boring the tree itself, a white, sweetish liquid called toddy exudes from the wound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Phil