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transpire
verb
1 transpire
Pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas.
synonym: transpirate.
Roget 336:
render gaseous
etc.
334;
vaporize,
volatilize;
distill,
sublime;
evaporate,
exhale,
smoke,
transpire,
emit vapor,
fume,
reek,
steam,
fumigate;
cohobate†;
finestill†.
bubble,
sparge,
effervesce,
boil.
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Roget 525:
make manifest,
render manifest
etc.
adj.;
bring forth,
bring forward,
bring to the front,
bring into view;
give notice;
express;
represent,
set forth,
exhibit;
show,
show up;
expose;
produce;
hold up to view,
expose to view;
set before one,
place before one,
lay before one,
one's eyes;
tell to one's face;
trot out,
put through one's paces,
bring to light,
display,
demonstrate,
unroll;
lay open;
draw out,
bring out;
bring out in strong relief;
call into notice,
bring into notice;
hold up the mirror;
wear one's heart upon his sleeve;
show one's face,
show one's colors;
manifest oneself;
speak out;
make no mystery,
make no secret of;
unfurl the flag;
proclaim
etc.
(publish)
531.
indicate
etc.
(direct attention to)
457;
disclose
etc.
529;
elicit
etc.
480.1.
be manifest
etc.
adj.;
appear
etc.
(be visible)
446;
transpire
etc.
(be disclosed)
529;
speak for itself,
stand to reason;
stare one in the face,
rear its head;
give token,
give sign,
give indication of;
tell its own tale
etc.
(intelligible)
518.
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Roget 529:
disclose,
discover,
dismask†;
draw the veil,
draw aside the veil,
lift the veil,
raise the veil,
lift up the veil,
remove the veil,
tear aside the veil,
tear the curtain;
unmask,
unveil,
unfold,
uncover,
unseal,
unkennel;
take off the seal,
break the seal;
lay open,
lay bare;
expose;
open,
open up;
bare,
bring to light.
divulge,
reveal,
break;
squeal [Coll.],
tattle [Coll.],
sing [Coll.],
rat [Coll.],
snitch [Coll.];
let into the secret;
reveal the secrets of the prison house;
tell
etc.
(inform)
527;
breathe,
utter,
blab,
peach;
let out,
let fall,
let drop,
let slip,
spill the beans,
let the cat out of the bag;
betray;
tell tales,
come out of school;
come out with;
give vent,
give utterance to;
open the lips,
blurt out,
vent,
whisper about;
speak out
etc.
(make manifest)
525;
make public
etc.
531;
unriddle
etc.
(find out)
480.1;
split.
acknowledge,
allow,
concede,
grant,
admit,
own,
own up to,
confess,
avow,
throw off all disguise,
turn inside out,
make a clean breast;
show one's hand,
show one's cards;
unburden one's mind,
disburden one's mind,
disburden one's conscience,
disburden one's heart;
open one's mind,
lay bare one's mind,
tell a piece of one's mind [Fr.];
unbosom oneself,
own to the soft impeachment;
say the truth,
speak the truth;
turn King's evidence,
Queen's evidence;
acknowledge the corn [U.S.].
raise the mask,
drop the mask,
lift the mask,
remove the mask,
throw off the mask;
expose;
lay open;
undeceive†,
unbeguile†;
disabuse,
set right,
correct,
open the eyes of;
d_esillusionner.
be disclosed
&c.;
transpire,
come to light;
come in sight
etc.
(be visible)
446;
become known,
escape the lips;
come out,
ooze out,
creep out,
leak out,
peep out,
crop-out;
show its face,
show its colors;
discover itself
&c.;
break through the clouds,
flash on the mind.
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Roget 532:
transpire
etc.
(be disclosed)
529;
rumor
etc.
(publish)
531.
2 transpire
3 transpire
Come to light; become known.
4 transpire
Come about, happen, or occur.
Dutch: plaatsgrijpen, plaatshebben, plaatsvinden, spelen, voltrekken
5 transpire
Give off (water) through the skin.
Moby thesaurus: appear, arise, be found, be met with, be realized, be revealed, become known, befall, betide, bleed, break, break forth, chance, come, come about, come down, come off, come out, come to light, come to pass, come true, develop, discharge, effuse, emit, eventuate, excrete, exfiltrate, extravasate, exudate, exude, fall, fall out, filter, filtrate, get out, give off, go, go off, hap, happen, leach, leak, leak out, lixiviate, manifest itself, materialize, occur, ooze, out, pass, pass off, percolate, reek, result, seep, show its colors, show its face, stand revealed, strain, take place, transude, turn out, weep ... show more.
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