EXUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exude mean? 

• EXUDE (verb)
  The verb EXUDE has 2 senses:

1. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

2. make apparent by one's mood or behavior

  Familiarity information: EXUDE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exude    ... he / she / it exudes   
Past simple: exuded   
Past participle: exuded   
-ing form: exuding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

exudate; exude; ooze; ooze out; transude

Context example:

exude sweat through the pores

Hypernyms (to "exude" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exude"):

distil; distill (give off (a liquid))

fume; reek (be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face)

transpire (give off (water) through the skin)

extravasate (geology: cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth)

stream (exude profusely)

gum (exude or form gum)

release; secrete (generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids)

froth (exude or expel foam)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

exudate (a substance that oozes out from plant pores)

exudation (the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes)

exudation (a substance that oozes out from plant pores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make apparent by one's mood or behavior

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She exudes great confidence

Hypernyms (to "exude" is one way to...):

evince; express; show (give expression to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I exude it round me; it is an aura.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The microscope analysis of the plant material came up with the exciting discovery that some plants were exuding vaterite from “chalk glands” (hydathodes) on the margins of their leaves.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

Astrologers know that Venus is exalted in Pisces, which means that when Venus is in this sign, she exudes her most loving and giving qualities to others.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)