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Emanate

//ˈɛm.əˌneɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come from a source; issue from. intransitive

    "Fragrance emanates from flowers."

  2. 2
    give out (breath or an odor) wordnet
  3. 3
    To send or give out; emit. rare, transitive

    "[…] his baggy, wrinkled suit emanating a diapery stench […]"

  4. 4
    proceed or issue forth, as from a source wordnet

Etymology

From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

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