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Fellow dined inside, enthused hollowly, and came out (8)

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I believe the answer is:

emanated

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'came out' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'fellow dined inside enthused' is the wordplay.
'fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'dined' becomes 'ate' (I've seen this in another clue).
'inside' is an insertion indicator.
'enthused' becomes 'ed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man'+'ate'='manate'
'manate' put into 'ed' is 'EMANATED'.

'hollowly and' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for emanated that I've seen before include "Flowed" , "Issued forth, as from a source" , "Issued or originated from a source" , "came forth" , "Emerged or originated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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