ex·press
vt 1 : to make known or exhibit by an expression 2 a : to force out by pressure <women who work outside the home can and store breast milk -J. Raloff> b : to subject to pressure so as to extract something <some pumps one breast at a time -Paula Lynn Parks> 3 : to cause (a gene) to manifest its effects in the phenotype .
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