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"Secreted" doesn't mean "kept secret", it means discharged like a liquid.

• keepamovin 3y ago
  > "Secreted" doesn't mean "kept secret", it means discharged like a liquid. Haha, you may have been joking, but...Unfortunately, in fact, it does. In English some words have multiple meanings even with the same sound or spelling. Natural language is not a computer programming language: not everything is unambiguous. In a similar way, not everything is literal or explicit. This flexibility is one of the beautiful things about natural language. Alternately, you may simply have been looking to create a pretext for a fight (sorry, I'm uninterested, please do some exercise instead or go to Reddit!), or perhaps need to improve your natural language parsing! :) haha The interesting thing about "secreted" is that, in voice, we distinguish the two meanings via EMphasis (or emPHASis, for a joke). The meaning you mistakenly read in despite context, is pronounced, seCREted, whereas the correct meaning in context is said SEcreted. :)