transpire
verb/trænˈspaɪə(r)/
/trænˈspaɪər/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they transpire | /trænˈspaɪə(r)/ /trænˈspaɪər/ |
| he / she / it transpires | /trænˈspaɪəz/ /trænˈspaɪərz/ |
| past simple transpired | /trænˈspaɪəd/ /trænˈspaɪərd/ |
| past participle transpired | /trænˈspaɪəd/ /trænˈspaɪərd/ |
| -ing form transpiring | /trænˈspaɪərɪŋ/ /trænˈspaɪərɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] (not usually used in the progressive tenses) transpire that… if it transpires that something has happened or is true, it is known or has been shown to be true
- It transpired that the gang had had a contact inside the bank.
- This story, it later transpired, was untrue.
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- [intransitive] to happen
- You're meeting him tomorrow? Let me know what transpires.
- [intransitive, transitive] transpire (something) (biology) when plants or leaves transpire, water passes out from their surface
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘emit as vapour through the surface’): from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- ‘through’ + spirare ‘breathe’. Senses 1 and 2 (mid 18th cent.) are figurative uses comparable with “leak out”.
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