radiate
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radiate
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Synonyms & Antonyms for radiate
Synonyms: Verb
Antonyms: Verb
concentrate, converge, focus, funnel, meet
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Examples of radiate in a Sentence
Verb
The pain was radiating down my arm. The sun radiates heat and light. Heat radiates from the sun.
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The thin, three-paneled applicator creates a half-moon shape to treat the abdomen and flanks simultaneously by radiating magnetic waves without ever touching the skin. — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, "5 New Body-Contouring Procedures Plastic Surgeons Can't Stop Talking About," 9 July 2019 If an object is only radiating infrared light and not reflecting it at all, that would be an emissivity of 1. — Rhett Allain, WIRED, "Should You Wear White or Black on Hot Days? Here's the Data," 9 July 2019 His smile is restrained, but his eyes radiate happiness. — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, "In news, when words fail, graphic and shocking photos often don't," 2 July 2019 There, cooled by radiating heat to space, rock vapor from the moon-forming synestia would have condensed to droplets of magma that rained down into its interior. — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, "When Earth and the Moon Were One," 2 July 2019 As Laurey, Rebecca Naomi Jones often stays still, radiating full-body tension and uncertainty beneath her outwardly pleasant exterior. — Aja Romano, Vox, "The new Oklahoma! is a sexy, shocking revival for our times," 2 July 2019 The posh chill-girl vibe her feed radiates is tempting to duplicate. — Jazmin Brooks, Essence, "Hey Curvy Girl! Follow These Fashionistas We Can't Get Enough Of," 23 June 2019 The Mexican strategy is a familiar one: Position checkpoints on the limited number of roads radiating north from the notoriously porous Guatemalan border, which stretches for about 600 miles along jungle, mountain and river terrain. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "At Mexico’s southern border, migrants feel the pinch of a crackdown spurred by U.S.," 13 June 2019 Solar energy striking Earth is either reflected back into space or absorbed and then radiated back as heat. — Kennedy Elliott, National Geographic, "See the drastic toll climate change is taking on our oceans," 7 June 2019These 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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