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Synonyms for secrete
sɪˈkritse·crete

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. secrete

    Hide is the general term, including all the rest, signifying to put out of sight or beyond ready observation or approach; a thing may be hidden by intention, by accident, or by the imperfection of the faculties of the one from whom it is hidden; in their games, children hide the slipper, or hide themselves from each other; a man unconsciously hides a picture from another by standing before it, or hides a thing from himself by laying something else over it. Even an unconscious object may hide another; as, a cloud hides the sun, or a building hides some part of the prospect by intervening between it and the observer's position. As an act of persons, to conceal is always intentional; one may hide his face in anger, grief, or abstraction; he conceals his face when he fears recognition. A house is hidden by foliage; the bird's nest is artfully concealed. Secrete is a stronger word than conceal, and is used chiefly of such material objects as may be separated from the person, or from their ordinary surroundings, and put in unlooked-for places; a man conceals a scar on his face, but does not secrete it; a thief secretes stolen goods; an officer may also be said to secrete himself to watch the thief. A thing is covered by putting something over or around it, whether by accident or design; it is screened by putting something before it, always with some purpose of protection from observation, inconvenience, attack, censure, etc. In the figurative use, a person may hide honorable feelings; he conceals an evil or hostile intent. Anything which is effectually covered and hidden under any mass or accumulation is buried. Money is buried in the ground; a body is buried in the sea; a paper is buried under other documents. Whatever is buried is hidden or concealed; but there are many ways of hiding or concealing a thing without burying it. So a person may be covered with wraps, and not buried under them. Bury may be used of any object, entomb and inter only of a dead body. Figuratively, one may be said to be buried in business, in study, etc. Compare IMMERSE; PALLIATE.

    Synonyms:
    bury, cloak, conceal, cover, disguise, dissemble, entomb, hide, inter, mask, overwhelm, screen, suppress, veil

    Antonyms:
    admit, advertise, avow, betray, confess, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, exhibit, exhume, expose, lay bare, lay open, make known, reveal, manifest, promulgate, publish, raise, show, tell, uncover, unmask, unveil

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. secrete

    Synonyms:
    hide, conceal

    Antonyms:
    expose, publish, manifest, exhibit, disclose

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. secrete, releaseverb

    generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

    "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"

    Synonyms:
    turn, exhaust, unloose, unloosen, unblock, unfreeze, liberate, expel, free, discharge, release, put out, give up, loose, let go, let go of, resign, relinquish, publish, bring out, issue, eject

  2. secreteverb

    place out of sight; keep secret

    "The money was secreted from his children"

    Synonyms:
    release

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. secreteverb

    Synonyms:
    hide, conceal, shroud, bury

  2. secreteverb

    Synonyms:
    separate (as from blood or sap)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. secreteverb

    Synonyms:
    bury, hide, conceal, shroud, disguise, cloak

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "secrete":

    excrete

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How to use secrete in a sentence?

  1. Cora Collette Breuner:

    Devices should be off and charging away from the bed, whether it’s in the kitchen or another room besides the bedroom, we don’t secrete melatonin to help us sleep when we’re staring at light.

  2. The Omani Shed:

    You can keep your secrete hidden from people but you can’t hide the sun with your thump.

  3. Joshy Jacob:

    The milk stayed good, just like you refrigerated it, in 2012, scientists took that particular frog and wanted to know why is it, why do these frogs keep milk fresh? It turned out that when you shock a frog or when you stimulate them or stress them, they secrete these short peptides into their surroundings.

  4. Prakash Adhikari:

    Every persons are bounded within a secrete line.

  5. Raymond Casciari:

    The saliva you secrete when chewing gum really has a calming effect on acid reflux.


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