Dictionary entry details
• RADIATE (verb)
Meaning:
Send out rays or waves
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Context example:
The sun radiates heat
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Send out real or metaphoric rays
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
She radiates happiness
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
ray; radiate
Context examples:
spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel / This plants radiates spines in all directions
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
extend; go; lead; pass; run (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
glow; radiate; beam; shine
Context example:
Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
The sun is radiating
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "radiate"):
blink; flash; twinkle; wink; winkle (gleam or glow intermittently)
gleam; glimmer (shine brightly, like a star or a light)
glow (emit a steady even light without flames)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
glow; beam; radiate; shine
Context examples:
She was beaming with joy / Her face radiated with happiness
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Issue or emerge in rays or waves
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
Heat radiated from the metal box
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
diversify; radiate
Context example:
The plants on this island diversified
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
alter; change; vary (make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
