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emit verb [ ɪˈmɪt ]

• produce and discharge (something, especially gas or radiation).
• "even the best cars emit carbon dioxide"
Similar: discharge, release, give out/off, pour out, send forth, throw out, void, effuse, vent, give vent to, issue, leak, ooze, shed, excrete, disgorge, secrete, eject, spout, belch, spew out, emanate, radiate, exhale, ejaculate, exude, eruct,
Opposite: absorb,
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin emittere, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + mittere ‘send’.


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