Definition of "effuse"

effuse

/ɪˈfjuːs/

adjective
comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse
1. Poured out freely; profuse.
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  So should our joy be very effuse.
  a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Nativity of our Lord tidings of great Joy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831
2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
  Quotations
  No wanton waste amid effuse expence
  1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750
3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
verb
third-person singular simple present effuses, present participle effusing, simple past and past participle effused
1. (transitive) To emit; to give off.
2. (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
  Quotations
  With gushing blood effused.
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
4. (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.
noun
1. (obsolete) effusion; loss
  Quotations
  Much effuse of blood.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vi]

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