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(transitive)

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

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

(archaic) (t=to extract or separate (a substance) from the blood, etc., for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function)

(intransitive)

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

(rare) To secrete a substance.