effuse
About 0.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Poured out freely; profuse.
- adjective Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
- adjective Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
an effuse inflorescence
- adjective Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.
- verb To emit; to give off.
- verb To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
- verb To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
- verb To leak out through a small hole.
Similar words
pour out give off flow out emanate effusive profused profusive profuse lavish prodigal
Often followed by
through my from at a her the all into
Word family
effused effuses effusing
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