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Another word for emit

Verb

  1. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently

    2. See also:

    move

    free

  2. To send out heat, light, or energy

    3. See also:

    move

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Sentence Examples

  • Bright meteors often emit the bluish-white light suggestive of burning magnesium.

  • In the not too distant future, tiny robots will detect pests on produce and emit a signal to shoo them away.

  • As soon as a spark-gap was introduced, or the condenser began to emit the humming sound peculiar to it, the beautiful blue glow so characteristic of argon immediately appeared.

  • All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.

  • the flames of chlorine in hydrogen) do not apparently emit the usual sodium radiation when a sodium salt is placed in them.

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