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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SECRE'TE, v.t.
1. To hide; to conceal; to remove from observation or the knowledge of others; as to secrete stolen goods.
2. To secrete one's self; to retire from notice into a private place; to abscend.
3. In the animal economy, to produce from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents; as the glands. The liver secretes bile; the salivary glands secrete saliva.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" [syn: secrete, release]
2: place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (secreted; secreting) Etymology: back-formation from secretion Date: 1693 to form and give off (a secretion) II. transitive verb (secreted; secreting) Etymology: alteration of obsolete secret, from ¹secret Date: 1741 1. to deposit or conceal in a hiding place 2. to appropriate secretly ; abstract Synonyms: see hide

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v.tr. Biol. (of a cell, organ, etc.) produce by secretion. Derivatives: secretor n. secretory adj. Etymology: back-form. f. SECRETION 2. v.tr. conceal; put into hiding. Etymology: obs. secret (v.) f. SECRET

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Secrete Se*crete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting.] [L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.] 1. To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self. 2. (Physiol.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. --Carpenter. Syn: To conceal; hide. See Conceal.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(secretes, secreting, secreted) 1. If part of a plant, animal, or human secretes a liquid, it produces it. The sweat glands secrete water. VERB: V n 2. If you secrete something somewhere, you hide it there so that nobody will find it. (LITERARY) She secreted the gun in the kitchen cabinet. VERB: V n prep/adv

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Hide, conceal, shroud, bury, disguise. 2. Separate (as from blood or sap), secern.

Moby Thesaurus

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