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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give off (vapor containing waste products) through the pores of the skin or the stomata of plant tissue.
  2. v. To become known; come to light.
  3. v. Usage Problem To come about; happen or occur.
  4. v. To give off vapor containing waste products, as through animal or plant pores.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To emit through the excretories of the skin or lungs; send off in vapor; exhale.
  2. To send out an exhalation; exhale.
  3. To pass through or out of some body, as an exhalation; specifically, to be emitted through the excretories of the skin or lungs; exhale; pass off from the body in vapor, as in insensible perspiration.
  4. In botany to exhale watery vapor. See transpiration. 2.
  5. To escape from secrecy; become public gradually; come to light; ooze out.
  6. To happen or come to pass; occur.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Physiol.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
  2. v. (Bot.) To evaporate from living cells.
  3. v. To escape from secrecy; to become public.
  4. v. To happen or come to pass; to occur.
  5. v. (Physiol.) To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.
  6. v. (Bot.) To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. come about, happen, or occur
  2. v. exude water vapor
  3. v. come to light; become known
  4. v. give off (water) through the skin
  5. v. pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas

Etymologies

  1. From the French transpirer, to perspire, from Latin transpirare, to breathe through, from trans, across + spirare, to breathe (Wiktionary)
  2. French transpirer, from Medieval Latin trānspīrāre : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin spīrāre, to breathe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire”

    Life of Johnson

  • “How many toilsome and anxious hours he passed in the war department, and how well he understood all that was transpiring and all that ought to transpire, is made apparent in the letters he himself wrote to Gen. McClellan during the fifteen months of his command.”

    Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist

  • “She cautioned Morton not to let a word transpire that they had held any conversation during the time they had been together, and to speak but little before Mrs. Belton, lest she should suspect what had really happened.”

    The Child of Mystery

  • “Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire? ”

    Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

  • “Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire?’”

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.

  • “Evapotranspiration occurs when plants secrete or "transpire" water through pores in their leaves.”

    Green roofs

  • “Just as you release water vapor when you breathe, plants do, too — although the term "transpire" is more appropriate than "breath.”

    Transpiration

  • “Possibly some newspaper correspondent in Eastbourne would hear of the kidnaping exploit, and describe the Eastern aspect of its chief actor, Mrs. Forbes's name would "transpire" in the paragraph, and, by putting two and two together the lynx-eyed journalism of London would ferret out a good deal of the truth.”

    Number Seventeen

  • “These claims do not differ in their character from ordinary business transactions such as transpire every day between private persons or business corporations.”

    A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

  • “Everything that does kind of transpire -- the whole we've-got-no-sugar thing and a fracas with sister Mary not providing customer service -- seem so contrived and, frankly, in consequential.”

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. occur
  2. exhale
  1. perspire
  2. escape
  1. leak out
  2. sweat
  1. reveal
  2. discover
  1. come to light
  2. come about
  1. come to pass

hypernyms (20)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. hap
  2. take place
  3. come about
  4. fallout
  1. pass off
  2. go on
  3. happen
  4. pass
  1. occur
  2. evaporate
  3. vaporise
  4. vaporize
  1. change
  2. transude
  3. exude
  4. ooze
  1. ooze out
  2. exudate
  3. flux
  4. flow

same context (4)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. egad
  1. she
  1. he
  1. they

rhymes (55)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Dyer
  2. Meier
  3. Meyer
  4. Trier
  5. acquire
  6. attire
  7. briar
  8. brier
  9. buyer
  10. byer
  11. cease-fire
  1. ceasefire
  2. choir
  3. conspire
  4. crier
  5. cryer
  6. desire
  7. dire
  8. dreier
  9. drier
  10. dryer
  11. dyer
  1. enquire
  2. entire
  3. eyer
  4. fire
  5. flier
  6. flyer
  7. friar
  8. frier
  9. fryer
  10. higher
  11. hire
  1. liar
  2. mier
  3. mire
  4. misfire
  5. plier
  6. prier
  7. prior
  8. pryer
  9. pyre
  10. require
  11. retire
  1. rewire
  2. shier
  3. sire
  4. spier
  5. squier
  6. supplier
  7. tire
  8. trier
  9. tyer
  10. wire
  11. wyer

reverse dictionary (2)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. transude
  1. to turn up

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  • fbharjo Is a humpire a vampire who hums while he (she) works? You never know where he (she) will call a strike. Get seriesous! no cojones! Oct 29, 2009

  • frogapplause What about a female vampire who dresses like a male vampire? Oct 29, 2009

  • vanishedone Okay, a list there shall be. Mar 25, 2009

  • reesetee Haha! Mar 25, 2009

  • bilby What, only one? We could have a whole list of vampires, methinks. Mar 25, 2009

  • vanishedone n. 'A male vampire who dresses like a female vampire.' (Spotted here) Mar 25, 2009

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