emanate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 7
Definition of emanate
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To come from a source; issue from.
“Fragrance emanates from flowers.”
“[…] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […]”
“that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate”
“Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person. It was not in the least unpleasant, and it reminded him—well, he wasn’t quite sure what it reminded him of.”
“The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To come from a source; issue from.
“Fragrance emanates from flowers.”
“[…] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […]”
“that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate”
“Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person. It was not in the least unpleasant, and it reminded him—well, he wasn’t quite sure what it reminded him of.”
“The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.”
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(rare, transitive)To send or give out; emit.
“[…] his baggy, wrinkled suit emanating a diapery stench […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).
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