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発音

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfjuːs/

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfjuːz/

形容詞

effuse (comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

1. Poured out freely; profuse.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Nativity of our Lord tidings of great Joy (sermon)

     So should our joy be very effuse.

2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
   • 1742, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, OCLC 753424981:

     No wanton waste amid effuse expence

3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.

   an effuse inflorescence

4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

動詞

effuse (三人称単数 現在形 effuses, 現在分詞 effusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 effused)

1. (transitive) To emit; to give off.
2. (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     With gushing blood effused.

4. (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.

名詞

effuse

1. (obsolete) effusion; loss
   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:

     Much effuse of blood.