Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To pass through pores or interstices in the manner of perspiration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pass or ooze through the pores or interstices of a membrane or other permeable substance, as a fluid (transpire being commonly said of gases or vapors).
Wiktionary
- v. To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures.
WordNet 3.0
- v. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
Etymologies
- New Latin trānsūdāre : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin sūdāre, to sweat; see sweid- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“While he did not quite transude murder, the potential underlined the rest of his clearly projected feelings.”
“The sun shone on his dilapidated garments and on his purple skin; it was almost black and seemed to transude blood.”
“Mountain, LM the Sand at the bottom, through which the Water is as it were strained, so as that the fresher parts are only permitted to transude, and the saline kept back; if therefore the proportion of G M to FM be as 45 to”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘transude’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Cagastric Words
I do love medical history, and medical words, especially the obscure ones, but also some that are just plain fun.
cagastric, caprizant, dree, cacatory, aporrhoea, cataplasm, cicatrix, cicatrizant, surgation, theriac, vulnerary, sthenic and 41 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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palavra' no má'
infinitesimal, coy, sobriquet, cognomen, succinct, secularism, ubiquitous, antithesis, tercet, adjudged, void for vagueness, surfeit and 69 more...
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