OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31523

effusion

Meanings (ES + gloss)
efusión
A liquid outpouring.
efusión
An outpouring of speech or emotion.
1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent displ…
The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
derrame
The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
pleural effusion
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