emanating

verb

Definition of emanatingnext
present participle of emanate
as in radiating
to throw or give off honeysuckle emanating such a sweet scent

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  1. radiating
  2. emitting
  3. casting
  4. releasing
Verb
  • Beyond the dust of Liverpool’s dock road and the huge lorries rolling in and out of the city’s port, the glass panels of Everton’s new home at the Bramley-Moore Dock sparkle impressively, radiating ambition.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Those affected may have chronic low back pain, stiffness, and radiating pain into the buttocks or legs, aggravated by activities that involve bending or lifting.
    Sarah Jividen, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of radiating
Verb
  • Pictures and video included with that post showed the helicopter burning in a field, emitting dark black plumes of smoke.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Radars operate by emitting electromagnetic radiation, which is reflected by objects and detected by the radar system.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of emitting
Verb
  • His father remembers visiting Scott around this time and driving around with him between casting calls.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Crawley solved the problem using small tungsten or LED spotlights to stand in for small portholes by casting small pools of light for Brody and the camera to cross through, but kept the vast majority of the space in a moody darkness.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of casting
Verb
  • Fewer family-friendly or holiday-themed movies releasing on Christmas Day is not an entirely new phenomenon.
    Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • After Newport, Dylan kept performing and writing new music, releasing two albums in one year and continuing his shift from folk to rock.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of releasing
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