secrete Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.

imperfect & past participle Secreted; present participle & verbal noun Secreting

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
(Physiol.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter.
Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See Conceal.