MEANING
1. To discharge a substance gradually, or to display a quality strongly and naturally.
2. To display a quality, feeling, or impression in a strongly noticeable way.
Use it for
Describe a substance emerging or a quality radiating.Make a substance or a character’s quality seem to seep outward.
Words that belong together
- exude resin
- exude an odor
- exude warmth
- exude confidence
- exude calm
On the page
Pine resin exuded from the split bark.
Even in the empty room, she exuded calm.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- exude
- Past tense
- exuded
- Past participle
- exuded
- Present participle
- exuding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- exude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are exuding
- Present perfect
- have/has exuded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been exuding
- Past
- exuded
- Past continuous
- was/were exuding
- Past perfect
- had exuded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been exuding
- Future
- will exude
- Future continuous
- will be exuding
- Future perfect
- will have exuded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been exuding
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Usage notes
The physical sense concerns a substance passing outward; the figurative sense concerns an evident quality or mood. Sense 2: The figurative sense takes a quality or emotion as its object.
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