secrete

CEFRB2

/sɪˈkɹiːt/

verb

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Examples

Glands secrete chemical substances into the body.
If a woman masturbates, she will secrete female hormones and become more feminine.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
To exude or yield.
To conceal.

In context

a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)
[…] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter. […] This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that...
If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.

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Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
1842, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology
Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
2008, Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202
With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.
1859, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete, and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
1914, The Pacific Reporter, volume 142, West Publishing Company, page 450
Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 43

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First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”).