Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To pass through pores or interstices in the manner of perspiration.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To pass through a pore, membrane or interstice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin trānsūdāre : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin sūdāre, to sweat; see sweid- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • While he did not quite transude murder, the potential underlined the rest of his clearly projected feelings.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • While he did not quite transude murder, the potential underlined the rest of his clearly projected feelings.

    Sideshow SS) Foster, Alan Dean 2002

  • While he did not quite transude murder, the potential underlined the rest of his clearly projected feelings.

    Sideshow Foster, Alan Dean 2002

  • While he did not quite transude murder, the potential underlined the rest of his clearly projected feelings.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • The sun shone on his dilapidated garments and on his purple skin; it was almost black and seemed to transude blood.

    Over Strand and Field Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • 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

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

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