exude

See also: exudé

English

Etymology

Latin exudare, exsudare (“to sweat out”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzud/, /ɪkˈsud/
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Verb

exude (third-person singular simple present exudes, present participle exuding, simple past and past participle exuded)

  1. (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
    • Dr. T. Dwight
      Our forests exude turpentine in […] abundance.
  2. (intransitive) To flow out through the pores.
    • 2013, Vladimir G. Plekhanov, Applications of the Isotopic Effect in Solids (page 258)
      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.

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Verb

exude

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exudar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exudar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exudar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of exudar.
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