verb
- Send out rays or waves.
- usage: "The sun radiates heat"
- synonyms: radiate
- Send out real or metaphoric rays.
- usage: "She radiates happiness"
- synonyms: radiate
- Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.
- usage: "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
- Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.
- usage: "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
- Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays.
- usage: "The sun is radiating"
- synonyms: radiate
- Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.
- usage: "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"
- Issue or emerge in rays or waves.
- usage: "Heat radiated from the metal box"
- synonyms: radiate
- Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate.
- usage: "The plants on this island diversified"
adjective
- Diverging from a common point. .
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