secrete

🇺🇸 /sɪˈkriːt/ 🇬🇧 /sɪˈkriːt/
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Tags TOP20000
verb
R

When a part of the body produces a substance.

Our sweat glands secrete sweat when we are hot.

R

To hide something carefully.

He secreted the diary under a loose floorboard.

translation

v. When a part of the body produces a substance.; To hide something carefully.

Word Forms

3rd Present secretes
Past secreted
Perfect secreted
Progressive secreting