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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

2. To evaporate from living cells.

3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired. The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey.

4. To happen or come to pass; to occur.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.

2. To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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