emanate
Verb
Verb Forms: emanated, emanating, emanates
- To issue or spread out from a source.
- proceed or issue forth, as from a source
- "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"
- give out (breath or an odor)
- To come from a source; issue from.
- To send or give out; emit.
Examples
- Fragrance emanates from flowers.
- The tension emanated from the Words With Friends board as we both eyed the triple word score.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).
Synonyms
exhale, give forth
Scrabble Score: 9
emanate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordemanate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
emanate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
emanate: valid Words With Friends Word