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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, give off] [ant: absorb, take in]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1831 transitive verb 1. to send out as a branch 2. emit <gave off an unpleasant smell> intransitive verb to branch off

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

or give out If something gives off or gives out a gas, heat, or a smell, it produces it and sends it out into the air. ...natural gas, which gives off less carbon dioxide than coal... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

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