# exudes

/ɪɡˈzudz/ (US) · /ɛɡzjˈuːdz/ (UK) · CEFR C1 · Verb

Source: https://englishreference.com/word/exudes
Updated: 2026-10-18

## Definition

to give off a strong feeling, quality, or smell in a natural way. You use it when confidence, calm, or warmth seems to come out of a person or place.

For teachers: to emit or display a quality, emotion, or substance strongly and naturally. Often describes confidence, charm, or calm radiating from a person, or an odour or fluid seeping from a source.

## Examples

- She exudes calm even when the office gets busy.
- Our new teacher exudes patience and makes every student feel welcome.
- Even in silence, the old library exudes history, its oak shelves holding decades of quiet study.

## Synonyms

radiate, project, emit, ooze, display, convey, emanate

## Usage notes

- The verb is transitive and takes a direct object.

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