Both Uses
emit
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The Ransom of Red Chief
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- They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs—they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars.†
*emit = send out
- Just then we heard a kind Of war-whoop, such as David might have emitted when he knocked out the champion Goliath.†
emitted = sent out
Definitions:
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(1)
(emit) to produce and send out -- such as sound or light
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)