Secrete

English

Adjective

Secrete (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) separated

Verb

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

1. (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, &c.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
2. figurative uses

Verb

Secrete (third-person singular simple present Secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

1. (transitive) To conceal.
2. (transitive) To steal.

Thesaurus

accumulate, amass, backlog, bosom, bottle up, bury, cache, camouflage, classify, cloak, collect, conceal, cover, cumulate, deposit, discharge, disguise, drain, dribble, drip, drop, effuse, egest, eliminate, emanate, embosom, emit, ensconce, enshroud, excrete, extravasate, exudate, exude, file and forget, garner, garner up, gather into barns, generate, give off, give out, heap up, hide, hide away, hoard, hoard up, hold, hold out on, in petto, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep hidden, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, lactate, lay up, leak, lock up, make no sign, mask, never let on, not give away, not tell, ooze, pass, pile up, plant, play dumb, produce, put away, put up, release, run, save, save up, screen, seal up, secern, seep, shroud, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stock up, stockpile, store away, store up, stow away, tear, transude, treasure, treasure up, trickle, veil, water, weep, withhold, yield

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: sĭkrētʹ, IPA: /sɪˈkɹiːt/, SAMPA: /sI"kr\i:t/

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• Rhymes: -iːt