English

Adjective

effuse ‎(comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

1. Poured out freely; profuse.
   • Barrow

     So should our joy be very effuse.

2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.

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3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.

   an effuse inflorescence

4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

effuse ‎(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.
   • Milton

     With gushing blood effused.

4. (intransitive) to leak out through a small hole

Translations

Derived terms

• effuser

Noun

effuse

1. (obsolete) effusion; loss
   • Shakespeare

     Much effuse of blood.

Italian

Verb

effuse

1. third-person singular past historic of effondere

effuse f

1. plural of effuso

Latin

Participle

effūse

1. vocative masculine singular of effūsus

References

• effuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “effuse”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.