EGAVE

secern

Meaning

  1. verb To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
  2. verb To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
  3. verb To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
  4. verb Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”).
  5. verb Of a person or thing: to become separated from others. To secrete a substance.
  6. verb Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.
  7. verb To secrete a substance.

Similar words

distinguish tell apart secernate differentiate severalize tell separate discriminate decern single

Word family

secerned secerning secerns

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