verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

exhaleaccrue fromappeararisearise fromattend

Example

More examples

"Stars emanate gamma rays when they explode."

Etymology

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

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