exude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

   exude sweat through the pores

2. 2
   verb

   make apparent by one's mood or behavior

   You exude great confidence.

3. 3
   verb

   To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

   There are five hundred and fifty-five trees, and they exude the sweetest odours

4. 4
   verb

   To flow out through the pores.

   The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.

5. 5
   verb

   To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.

   Wearing that suit, Jasper just exudes class.

Etymology

Latin exudāre, exsudāre (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudāre (“to sweat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.