effuse

Other forms of effuse

past tense

effused·

present participle

effusing·

third person

effuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about effuse

What does effuse mean?

effuse means "pour out". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in effuse?

effuse has 2 syllables: ef-fuse. The stress falls on "fuse".

What is another word for effuse?

Close synonyms include pour out, flow out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is effuse a common word?

effuse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.