| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour forth |
Synonyms: |
break out, disembogue, dispense, ejaculate, emit, empty, erupt, excrete, exude, give off, gush, leak, ooze, release, send forth, spew, void, vomit |
Antonyms: |
dam |
| Main Entry: | emanate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come forth; give off |
Synonyms: |
arise, birth, derive, discharge, egress, emerge, emit, exhale, exit, exude, flow, initiate, issue, originate, proceed, radiate, rise, send forth, spring, stem |
Antonyms: |
take, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | emit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diffuse, discharge |
Synonyms: |
afford, beam, belch, breathe, cast out, disembogue, drip, eject, emanate, erupt, evacuate, excrete, exhale, expectorate, expel, expend, expire, extrude, exude, give off, give out, give vent to, gush, issue, jet, let off, loose, ooze, pass, perspire, pour, pronounce, purge, radiate, reek, secrete, send forth, send out, shed, shoot, speak, spew, spill, spit, squirt, throw out, transmit, utter, vent, voice, void, vomit, yield |
Antonyms: |
conceal, contain, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit, emerge; come from |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, be a consequence, birth, come forth, derive from, emanate, exude, flow, give off, give out, ooze, originate, proceed, release, rise, send forth, spring, spurt, stem, throw off, vent, well |
Antonyms: |
hold, keep, repress, retain, suppress |
| Main Entry: | launch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send off |
Synonyms: |
barrage, bombard, bung, cast, catapult, discharge, dispatch, drive, eject, fire, fling, heave, hurl, lance, pitch, project, propel, send forth, set afloat, set in motion, shoot, sling, throw, toss |
Antonyms: |
hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rid of waste |
Synonyms: |
defecate, discharge, eliminate, emit, empty, evacuate, excrete, expel, exude, give off, send forth, void |
| Main Entry: | pass off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give because one does not want it |
Synonyms: |
eject, foist, make a pretense of, palm, palm off, send forth, work off |
Antonyms: |
keep, maintain |
| Main Entry: | precipitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry, speed |
Synonyms: |
accelerate, advance, bring on, cast, discharge, dispatch, expedite, fling, further, hasten, hurl, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken, send forth, speed up, throw, trigger |
| Notes: | precipitous 'hasty, sudden and dramatic' is used in relation to physical or natural objects; precipitate 'done with great haste' relates to human actions or processes |
Antonyms: |
check, slow, wait |
| Main Entry: | relay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass on, transmit |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, carry, communicate, deliver, hand down, hand on, hand over, send, send forth, spread, transfer, turn over |
Antonyms: |
check, hold on, keep |
| Main Entry: | shed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cast off |
Synonyms: |
afford, beam, cashier, cast, diffuse, disburden, discard, doff, drop, emit, exude, exuviate, give, give forth, jettison, junk, let fall, molt, pour forth, radiate, reject, scatter, scrap, send forth, shower, slip, slough, spill, sprinkle, take off, throw, throw away, throw out, yield |
Antonyms: |
put on |