effuse

Verb

Verb Forms: effused, effusing, effuses

• To pour out, especially emotion or liquid; to gush.
• pour out
  • "effused brine"
• flow or spill forth
• give out or emit (also metaphorically)
  • "The room effuses happiness"
• To emit; to give off.
• To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
• To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
• To leak out through a small hole.

Adj

• Poured out freely; profuse.
• Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
• Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
• Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Noun

• effusion; loss

Examples

• an effuse inflorescence
• Don’t EFFUSE too much excitement, even if you just bingoed for 100 points.

Synonyms

flow out, pour out

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