effuse

comparative more effuse · superlative most effuse

1. Poured out freely; profuse.

   So should our joy be very effuse.

   a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC

2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.

   No wanton waste amid effuse expence

   1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC

3. biologySpreading loosely, especially on one side.

   an effuse inflorescence

4. biologyHaving the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

present singular third person effuses · participle present effusing · participle past effused · past effused

1. transitiveTo emit; to give off.
2. figurativelyTo gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
3. intransitiveTo pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.

   With gushing blood effused.

   1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

4. intransitiveTo leak out through a small hole.

1. obsoleteeffusion; loss

   Much effuse of blood.

   c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]