effuse

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A. setacea Panicle effuse, glumes I and II awned or not; callus naked 3.

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  1. adjective Botany Spreading out loosely.
  2. transitive verb To pour out (a liquid).
  3. transitive verb To radiate; diffuse.
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  • But the Obamas effuse a black middle-class spirit that is effervescent, cheeky, smart, nuanced and seamless. —  In These Times
  • No one cares that Wilmington chose Shine a Light as his No. 1 film of 2008; it's troubling, though, to see him effuse about Mick Jagger, "He's the Stone that, like Sisyphus 'rock, never stops rolling." —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • If you put it in another folder, it lets you import one graphic, then it freezes and returns an effuse error upon trying to add the 2nd grahic. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • It came out in November, and as much as I would've loved to have gotten to it earlier, now seems like as good of a time as any to effuse some praise upon it. —  Faronheit
  • She would effuse over polka dots and shower buyers with socks that matched the colors and patterns she was pitching. —  Inc.com
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Latin effūsus, past participle of effundere, to pour out : ex-, ex- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere, ecfundere, pour forth, from ex, forth, + fundere, pour: see fuse.
  2. = Old French effus = Spanish efuso = Italian effuso, from Latin effusus, past participle: see the verb.
  3. from effuse, v.
 

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