OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 5748

secrete

/sɪˈkɹiːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
secretar
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
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📚 verb • entry_id 5749

secrete

/sɪˈkɹiːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
secretear
To conceal.
Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete, and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, a…
With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boot…
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