effuse
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
effuse
- Poured out freely; profuse.
- So should our joy be very effuse.
- Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
- (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
- an effuse inflorescence
- (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
effuse (effuses, present participle effusing; past and past participle effused)
- (transitive) to emit; to give off
- (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something
- (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- With gushing blood effused.
- (intransitive) to leak out through a small hole
effuse
- (obsolete) effusion; loss
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene vi]:
- Much effuse of blood.
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