exude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To show a quality or feeling strongly and clearly through the way you look or behave.

   She exudes confidence whenever she walks into a room.

2. 2
   verb

   To slowly release a liquid or smell, often through the surface of something.

   The wound exuded a clear fluid.

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

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