radiate
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radiate
adjective
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Synonyms: Verb
Antonyms: Verb
concentrate, converge, focus, funnel, meet
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The pain was radiating down my arm. The sun radiates heat and light. Heat radiates from the sun.
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At every cafe, in the rough stone buildings of every city center, crowds radiated out from large screens, leaning in, waiting for plausible excuses to scream. — Sam Anderson, New York Times, "New Sentences: From ‘What We Think About When We Think About Soccer’," 5 July 2018 Tracks radiated out from San Antonio to Houston and New Orleans, Corpus Christi, Laredo, El Paso and all the way west to Los Angeles, Kerrville, Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. — From Express-news Archives, San Antonio Express-News, "After railroad arrived in 1877, S.A. became important crossroad," 19 Feb. 2018 His kind spirit radiated throughout the clubhouse as a player & a coach. — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Longtime Padres coach Picciolo dies; 'just loved the game of baseball'," 5 Jan. 2018 Beyoncé topped off the ensemble with the collection’s matching oversized hat and a pair of Giuseppe Zanotti silver sandals, radiating confidence and the star quality that won her accolades in the first place. — Vogue, "Beyoncé Has a Couture Fashion Moment at the NAACP Awards," 1 Apr. 2019 In space, there is no convection; everything has to be radiated. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "Edge on cooling from nanostructure beats physical limit," 11 Sep. 2018 The result: Light seems to radiate from within the figure of Saint Jerome, rather than having been applied to it. — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, "Out of the shadows and into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA," 5 July 2018 With that said, women are more likely to experience lesser known symptoms of a heart attack, like shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and pain that radiates into the back, shoulders, and jaw. — Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, "When to Go to Urgent Care Vs. the ER," 16 Feb. 2019 Friendly relations with a stable Africa are critical to U.S. economic and military interests, lest poverty and political dysfunction radiate instability through mass emigration or security threats. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Countering Russia and China in Africa," 13 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'radiate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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