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Emanate

To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Come 76% connected

of Come

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Effuse 76% connected

Poured out freely; profuse.

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Emanation 74% connected

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

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Emanation 74% connected

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

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Emission 74% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Emission 74% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Exhale 92% connected

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Beam verb · 78% connection

To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.

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Comparative adjective · 78% connection

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

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Ebb verb · 78% connection

To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.

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Electromotive force noun · 78% connection

the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts

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Emf noun · 78% connection

the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts

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Fall verb · 78% connection

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.

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Flow verb · 78% connection

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rive…

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Fountain noun · 78% connection

The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

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Fulminate verb · 78% connection

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

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Gush verb · 78% connection

To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

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Head noun · 78% connection

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…

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Hodograph noun · 78% connection

A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direct…

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Issuable adjective · 78% connection

Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law.

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Issue noun · 78% connection

The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of…

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Less adjective · 78% connection

Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less…

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Lilac noun · 78% connection

A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, t…

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Manichee noun · 78% connection

A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the sou…

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Mignonette noun · 78% connection

A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a lo…

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