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Definition of Effuse

1. Verb. Pour out. "Effused brine"

2. Verb. Flow or spill forth.

3. Verb. Give out or emit (also metaphorically). "The room effuses happiness"

Definition of Effuse

1. a. Poured out freely; profuse.

2. n. Effusion; loss.

3. v. t. To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.

4. v. i. To emanate; to issue.

Definition of Effuse

1. Adjective. spread out ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to emit; to give off ¹

3. Verb. (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) to leak out through a small hole ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Effuse

1. to pour forth [v -FUSED, -FUSING, -FUSES]

Medical Definition of Effuse

1. Effusion; loss. "Much effuse of blood." To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. "With gushing blood effused." (Milton) Origin: Effused; Effusing. 1. Poured out freely; profuse. "So should our joy be very effuse." (Barrow) 2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. 3. Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence. 4. Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; said of certain shells. Origin: L. Effusus, p. P. Of effundere to pour out; ex + fundere to pour. See Fuse to melt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Effuse

effulgence effulgences effulgent effulgently effulges effulging effumability effume effumed effumes

effuming effund effunded effunding effunds effuse (current term) effused effuses effusing effusiometer

effusiometers effusion effusions effusive effusively effusiveness effusivenesses eflornithine eflornithine hydrochloride eformoterol

Literary usage of Effuse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... Ta. effuse, adv. with сотр. [effusus], far spread, in disorder, at random : ire, S. : fugientes, L. : se- qui, ..."

2. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1899)
"effuse (Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii p. 27). 26. P. arborescens L. Sp. PI. p. 59 (1753). ... effuse ..."

3. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... spreader. esparcir, to diffuse, to effuse, to scatter, to spread, to disseminate, ... effuse ..."

4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"Mitra, Sw. Shell entirely smooth, or with the sutures very slightly crenated ; aperture very effuse at the base. Example, Mitra episcopalis, &c. 2. ..."

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