What is another word for secretes?

Pronunciation: [sɪkɹˈiːts] (IPA)

The word secretes often refers to the process of producing or releasing a substance from a gland or an organ. However, there are various other terms that can be used interchangeably with secretes to enhance the accuracy and richness of our language. Some of these synonyms include produces, emits, releases, excretes, discharges, gives off, pours out, extrudes, secretes, spews, and expels. Depending on the context and intended meaning, each of these synonyms can be used effectively to describe a diverse range of biological processes and phenomena related to the secretion of bodily fluids, chemicals, and other substances. By using synonyms, we can avoid repeating the same word and add more depth and precision to our writing.

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  • Independent

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      conceals.

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Usage examples for Secretes

Secondarily, it secretes its messengers to keep the rest of the body, and particularly the other endocrines, in touch with the necessities of the adventures of these ova.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
You can gamble the limit he knows it; for all the time Missis Rucker is prancin' about the Red Light denouncin' him, he secretes himse'f, shiverin', behind the bar; an' when that lady withdraws, mollified an' subdooed by the money, he creeps out, Bowlaigs does, an' cries an' licks Enright's hand.
"Wolfville Nights"
Alfred Lewis
If thou shouldest desire to understande the secretes of thy enemie, and to know his orders, some have used to sende embassadours, and with theim in servauntes aparel, moste expertest men in warre: whom havynge taken occasion to se the enemies armie, and to consider his strengthe and weakenesse, it hath geven them oportunitie to overcome him.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli

Famous quotes with Secretes

  • One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
    Virginia Woolf
  • Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
    Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The “self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
    Robert Charles Wilson
  • And here one may note a curious comparison which can be made between this [ascidian] life-history and that of many a respectable pinnacle and gargoyle on the social fabric. Every respectable citizen of the professional classes passes through a period of activity and imagination, of "liveliness and eccentricity," of "Sturm und Drang." He shocks his aunts. Presently, however, he realizes the sober aspect of things. He becomes dull; he enters a profession; suckers appear on his head; and he studies. Finally, by virtue of these he settles down—he marries. All his wild ambitions and subtle æsthetic perceptions atrophy as needless in the presence of calm domesticity. He secretes a house, or "establishment," round himself, of inorganic and servile material. His Bohemian tail is discarded. Henceforth his life is a passive receptivity to what chance and the drift of his profession bring along; he lives an almost entirely vegetative excrescence on the side of a street, and in the tranquillity of his calling finds that colourless contentment that replaces happiness.
    H. G. Wells

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