effuse
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of effuse
9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Poured out freely; profuse.
“So should our joy be very effuse.”
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adj
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Poured out freely; profuse.
“So should our joy be very effuse.”
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Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
“No wanton waste amid effuse expence”
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Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
“an effuse inflorescence”
- Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
verb
- (transitive)To emit; to give off.
- (figuratively)To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
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(intransitive)To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
“With gushing blood effused.”
- (intransitive)To leak out through a small hole.
noun
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(obsolete)effusion; loss
“Much effuse of blood.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).
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