Secrete developed in the mid-18th century as an alteration of a now obsolete verb secret. That verb had the meaning now carried by secrete and derived from the familiar noun secret …

SECRETE definition: 1. (of animals or plants or their cells) to produce and release a liquid: 2. to put something in a…. Learn more.

Secrete definition: to discharge, generate, or release by the process of secretion.. See examples of SECRETE used in a sentence.

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To generate and release (a substance) from a cell or a gland: secrete hormones. [Back-formation from secretion.]

If you secrete something somewhere, you hide it there so that nobody will find it.

Nov 4, 2025 · secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted) (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.)