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Word entry · 7 letters

secrete

Best crossword clue

"Produce and release"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /sɪˈkɹiːt/Part of speech verbSorted ceeerstStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
  • Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
  • 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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