emote

as in to drool
to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.

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Recent Examples of emote The credit for how the characters emote is due to the incredible work done by our animators. Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025 Even now, with no way to hide behind my usual euphemisms or analogies, emoting still feels at times too frank and candid. Hannah Seo, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 By emoting or joking online, Swifties are able to connect with one another and find a sense of closure for an event that has been uplifting for many of them. Callum Booth, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 Even so, there remains a slightly amateurish quality to the project, involving on-the-nose dialogue and an odd tic whereby the actors tend to emote with their eyebrows — whereas Washington’s power comes from how much her character appears to be keeping inside. Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for emote
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Verb
  • Symptoms may include excessive panting, glazed eyes, lethargy, drooling, vomiting, or confusion.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • Elavil can help with not only depression but also symptoms like drooling.
    Janelle McSwiggin, Health, 20 July 2025
Verb
  • Her image is fawned over but also analyzed, co-opted, and monetized.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
  • That was fair enough—not overly fawning, and largely true.
    Tom Nagorski, Time, 18 July 2025
Verb
  • As darkness settled over a nature reserve in the United Kingdom, a baby mammal began to fuss and whine to its parent.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
  • Vodka just keeps things boozy without fussing too much with the flavor.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025

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“Emote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emote. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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