give off
v 1: have as a by-product; "The big cities gave off so many
wonderful American qualities"
2: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or
radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some
harmful rays which the sun emits" [syn: emit, give out]
[ant: absorb]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "give off":
aerate, aerify, atomize, bleed, blow, breathe out, carbonate,
chlorinate, discharge, distill, effuse, egest, eliminate, emit,
etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate, excrete, exfiltrate,
exhale, exhaust, expire, extravasate, exudate, exude, filter,
filtrate, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give out,
give vent to, hydrogenate, issue, leach, let out, lixiviate, ooze,
open the floodgates, open the sluices, oxygenate, pass, percolate,
perfume, puff, reek, release, secrete, seep, send out, smoke,
spray, steam, strain, sublimate, sublime, throw, throw off,
transpire, transude, vapor, vaporize, void, volatilize, weep
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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