adj
Meaning 1
Separated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
secrete
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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sĭkrētʹ
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/sɪˈkɹiːt/
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/səˈkɹiːt/
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rhymes with -iːt
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adj
Meaning 2
Archaic form of secret.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
Examples
- a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive, usually
Qualifier: glands
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: secern
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To exude or yield.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To conceal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- secrete digestive juices
- release a hormone into the blood stream
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: release
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
Narrower terms: water
verb
Meaning 7
place out of sight; keep secret
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The money was secreted from his children
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hide, conceal
History
Etymology
First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”).
Alteration of secret.
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“to separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَفْرَزَ (ʔafraza) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Bulgarian: отделям (otdeljam) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Catalan: secretar — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Chinese Mandarin: 分泌 (fēnmì) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Czech: vylučovat — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Dutch: afscheiden — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Finnish: erittää — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- French: sécréter — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- French: excréter — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- German: ausscheiden — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- German: aussondern — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- German: absondern — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- German: sezernieren — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Greek: κρύβω (krývo) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Greek: καταχωνιάζω (katachoniázo) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Greek: εκκρίνω (ekkríno) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Hindi: स्राव (srāv) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Icelandic: seyta — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Ingrian: antaa — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Japanese: 分泌する (bunpitsu-suru) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Korean: 분비하다 (bunbihada) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Limburgish: aafsjèjje — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Macedonian: лачи (lači) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Macedonian: излачува (izlačuva) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Norwegian Bokmål: avsondre — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Persian: ترشح کردن (taraššoh kardan) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Polish: wydzielać — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Polish: wydzielić — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Portuguese: secretar — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Romanian: secreta — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Russian: выделя́ть (vydeljátʹ) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Russian: вы́делить (výdelitʹ) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Spanish: secretar — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Spanish: segregar — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Telugu: స్రవించు (sraviñcu) — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Vietnamese: tiết — (''transitive'') produce by secretion
- Catalan: secretar — to conceal
- Finnish: kätkeä — to conceal
- Finnish: piilottaa — to conceal
- French: celer — to conceal
- French: cacher — to conceal
- Italian: secretare — to conceal
- Japanese: 秘密にする (himitsu ni suru) — to conceal
- Japanese: 隠す (kakusu) — to conceal
- Korean: 감추다 (gamchuda) — to conceal
- Korean: 숨기다 (sumgida) — to conceal
- Māori: whakapeke — to conceal
- Māori: whakangaro — to conceal
- Portuguese: segredar — to conceal
- Spanish: secretear — to conceal
- Finnish: varastaa — to steal
- Finnish: kähveltää — to steal
- French: dérober — to steal
- French: enlever — to steal