'Secrete' definitions:
Definition of 'secrete'
From: WordNet
verb
Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" [syn: secrete, release]
verb
Place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"
Definition of 'Secrete'
From: GCIDE
- Secrete \Se*crete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting.] [L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.]
- 1. To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Physiol.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. [1913 Webster]
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know. --Carpenter. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To conceal; hide. See Conceal. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'secrete'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accumulate,
- amass,
- backlog,
- bosom,
- bottle up,
- bury,
- cache,
- camouflage,
- classify,
- cloak,
- collect,
- conceal,
- cover,
- cumulate,
- deposit,
- discharge,
- disguise,
- drain,
- dribble,
- drip,
- drop,
- effuse,
- egest,
- eliminate,
- emanate,
- embosom,
- emit,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- excrete,
- extravasate,
- exudate,
- exude,
- file and forget,
- garner,
- garner up,
- gather into barns,
- generate,
- give off,
- give out,
- heap up,
- hide,
- hide away,
- hoard,
- hoard up,
- hold,
- hold out on,
- in petto,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep hidden,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under wraps,
- lactate,
- lay up,
- leak,
- lock up,
- make no sign,
- mask,
- never let on,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- ooze,
- pass,
- pile up,
- plant,
- play dumb,
- produce,
- put away,
- put up,
- release,
- run,
- save,
- save up,
- screen,
- seal up,
- secern,
- seep,
- shroud,
- squirrel,
- squirrel away,
- stash,
- stock up,
- stockpile,
- store away,
- store up,
- stow away,
- tear,
- transude,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- trickle,
- veil,
- water,
- weep,
- withhold,
- yield
Words containing 'Secrete'
- In secret,
- Secret,
- Secreted,
- Secreting,
- Secretion,
- Secretive,
- Secretiveness,
- Secretly,
- Secretness,
- secreter,
- secretively,
- Foot secretion,
- Paralytic secretion,
- Secret Service,
- Top secret,
- internal secretion,
- lachrymal secretion,
- lacrimal secretion,
- mucous secretion,
- open secret,
- secret agent,
- secret approval,
- secret ballot,
- secret code,
- secret language,
- secret place,
- secret plan,
- secret police,
- secret society,
- secret writing,
- trade secret,
- secret intelligence service,
- top-secret,
- us secret service,
- united states secret service,
- armenian secret army for the liberation of armenia