transpire
IPA: trænspˈaɪɝ
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To perspire.
- (botany, intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
- (intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy.
- (loosely, intransitive) To happen, take place.
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Examples of "transpire" in Sentences
- Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire
- Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire?’
- Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire? '
- Evapotranspiration occurs when plants secrete or "transpire" water through pores in their leaves.
- Just as you release water vapor when you breathe, plants do, too — although the term "transpire" is more appropriate than "breath."
- These claims do not differ in their character from ordinary business transactions such as transpire every day between private persons or business corporations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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