effuse

Meanings

Adjective

• Poured out freely; profuse.
• Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
• Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
• Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

• To emit; to give off.
• To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
• To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
• To leak out through a small hole.

Noun

• effusion; loss

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere.