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Word definitions for exude in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES exude/radiate confidence (= show it in a very noticeable way ) ▪ As the leader, you have to exude confidence and authority. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN air ▪ Just how bad was the point going to be I wondered, whilst ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exude \Ex*ude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exuded ; p. pr. & vb. n. exuding .] [L. exudare, exsudare, exudatum, exsudatum, to sweat out; ex out + sudare to sweat: cf. F. exuder, exsuder. See Sweat .] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s (intransitive), from Latin exudare / exsudare "ooze out like sweat," from ex- "out" (see ex- ) + sudare "to sweat," from sudor "sweat" (see sweat (v.)). Transitive sense from 1755. Related: Exuded ; exudes ; exuding .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exudate , transude , ooze out , ooze ] make apparent by one's mood or behaviour; "She exude great confidence"
Usage examples of exude.
The whiteness of his agedness contradicted by the strength he still exuded into the room.
When the bark of the main stems is wounded, a gum will exude, and may be collected: it possesses astringent and mildly aperient properties.
Its rear exuded puffs of white, and the craft began to drop more rapidly, more confidently, toward the world below, a world of all adamantine blue-white, a great azurite globe laced with a delicate matrix of cloud.
They were held by the wax and exuded byssus of the home-grubs, colossal maggoting larvae that the khepri used to reshape their dwellings.
As the oleaginous matter exudes, it falls in drops through the apertures into a wide-mouthed calabash placed underneath.
The Table exuded age, as though it might have been one that remained from the score or more that had once linked the far-flung domains of the Duarchy of Corus.
Catherine discovered it was fairly easy to sculpt the greenish-white ectoplasm she exuded into a crude semblance of the lost heiress.
He exuded a scent of sandalwood and musk, undoubtedly made only for him by some par fumier in Bond Street.
Death descended on the puppy so suddenly that the expression of happiness was still on its mouth and in its eyes long after Grenouille had bedded it down in the impregnating room on a grate between two greased plates, where it exuded its pure doggy scent, unadulterated by the sweat of fear.
Aside from the usual analysis of explosives for the Isthmian Canal Commission, special tests are made to determine the liability of the explosive to exude nitro-glycerine, and to deteriorate in unfavorable weather conditions.
Hitler lacked but needed, and Goering soon became active in introducing the Nazi leader to his friends and in counteracting in upper-class circles the bad odor which some of the Brownshirt ruffians exuded.
Its trumpet-shaped waxy flowers were like upside-down Easter lilies, opening by moonlight to exude their heavy, sensual aroma.
At least some of the emotion-determining role of such limbic endocrine systems as the pituitary amygdala, and hypothalamus is provided by small hormonal proteins which they exude, and which affect other areas of the brain.
And all of them were exuding combat-stink of such loathsomeness that even the frigid blast of the wind did not suffice to protect those nearby.
Jim Morrison onstage in full leather regalia, clutching a microphone, a softly lit, expertly retouched studio publicity still of Lawrence Harvey, a sultry James Dean exuding the scary longeur of the temporarily sated predator, a grainy shot of T.