give forth

1. 1.

   give out (breath or an odor)

   “The chimney exhales a thick smoke”

   Synonymsexhaleemanate

   Broaderemit

Questions about give forth

What does give forth mean?

give forth means "give out (breath or an odor)".

What is another word for give forth?

Close synonyms include exhale, emanate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give forth a common word?

give forth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.