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- Dictionarysecrete/sɪˈkriːt/
verb
- 1. conceal; hide: "the assets had been secreted in Swiss bank accounts"
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to put something in a place where it is unlikely to be found: He was arrested at the airport with a kilo of heroin secreted in his clothing. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of secreted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
to put something in a place where it is unlikely to be found: He was arrested at the airport with a kilo of heroin secreted in his clothing. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of secrete from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
1. : to deposit or conceal in a hiding place. 2. : to appropriate secretly : abstract. Did you know? If you guessed that the secret to the origins of secrete is the word secret, you are correct. Secrete developed in the mid-18th century as an alteration of a now obsolete verb secret.
to put something in a place where it is unlikely to be found: He was arrested at the airport with a kilo of heroin secreted in his clothing. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of secreted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
1. To conceal in a hiding place; cache: "He secreted valuables away in cupboards and beneath the mattress" (Michael Crummey). See Synonyms at hide 1. 2. To steal secretly; filch. [Probably alteration of obsolete secret, from secret .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
To produce and discharge a substance, especially from the cells of specialized glands. For example, the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas secrete the hormone insulin.
1.verb. If part of a plant, animal, or human secretes a liquid, it produces it. The sweat glands secrete water. [VERB noun] Synonyms: give off, emit, emanate, exude More Synonyms of secrete. 2.verb. If you secrete something somewhere, you hide it there so that nobody will find it. [literary] She secreted the gun in the kitchen cabinet.
