Definition of "secern" in Englisch

verb

1. To separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).

2. To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.

3. Synonym of secrete (“to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function”).

4. Of a person or thing: to become separated from others.

5. To secrete a substance.