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Synonyms for radiate

The synonym for radiate recorded in this bank is ray, in the sense "extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for radiate

rayverb, in the sense "extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for radiate.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

The spokes radiate from the center of the wheel.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

ray

Same sentence, swapped: The spokes ray from the center of the wheel.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

diversify
curve
wind

Where radiate turns up in the game

radiate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play radiate

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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