take air

English

Verb

take air

  1. To be divulged; to be made public.
    • 1780, The Annual Register
      The purchase proved fatal; the Jew's family soon died of the plague: the news took air, and the house was burnt, but the infection could not be restrained; it spread, and continued to rage with great violence […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for take air in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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