What part of speech is secrete?

Secrete can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. secrete is a verb, present, 1st person singular of secrete (infinitive).
  • 2. secrete is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does secrete mean?

Definitions

Adjective

secrete - separated.

Verb

secrete - generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"
secrete - place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"

Examples of secrete

#   Sentence  
1. verb Secrete digestive juices.
2. verb If a woman masturbates, she will secrete female hormones and become more feminine.
3. verb Glands secrete chemical substances into the body.
4. verb The adrenal glands secrete adrenalin.
5. verb "Him on Idalia, lulled into a dream, / will I secrete, or on the sacred height / of lone Cythera, lest he learn the scheme, / or by his sudden presence mar the sleight."
6. verb Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear.
7. verb The fatal weapon was found in the chamber smeared with blood. It was the same poniard which Henry should have worn on the wedding-day, and the unhappy sister had probably contrived to secrete on the preceding evening, when it had been shown to her among other articles of preparation for the wedding.
8. verb He presses just the right part of the snail's foot to encourage it to secrete a neurotoxin directly onto a skein of cotton yarn.
Sentence  
verb
Secrete digestive juices.
If a woman masturbates, she will secrete female hormones and become more feminine.
Glands secrete chemical substances into the body.
The adrenal glands secrete adrenalin.
"Him on Idalia, lulled into a dream, / will I secrete, or on the sacred height / of lone Cythera, lest he learn the scheme, / or by his sudden presence mar the sleight."
Meanwhile a mingled murmur through the street / rolls onward – wails of anguish, shrieks of fear –, / and though my father's mansion stood secrete, / embowered in foliage, nearer and more near / peals the dire clang of arms, and loud and clear, / borne on fierce echoes that in tumult blend, / war-shout and wail come thickening on the ear.
The fatal weapon was found in the chamber smeared with blood. It was the same poniard which Henry should have worn on the wedding-day, and the unhappy sister had probably contrived to secrete on the preceding evening, when it had been shown to her among other articles of preparation for the wedding.
He presses just the right part of the snail's foot to encourage it to secrete a neurotoxin directly onto a skein of cotton yarn.

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