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Exude

//ɪɡˈzud// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. transitive

    "There are five hundred and fifty-five trees, and they exude the sweetest odours"

  2. 2
    release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities wordnet
  3. 3
    To flow out through the pores. intransitive

    "The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber."

  4. 4
    make apparent by one's mood or behavior wordnet
  5. 5
    To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly. transitive

    "Wearing that suit, Jasper just exudes class."

Etymology

Latin exudāre, exsudāre (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudāre (“to sweat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.

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