transpire
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transpire
- /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/ UK
- /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ/ US
Rhymes with -aɪə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.
verb transpires · transpiring · transpired
- To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
- To perspire.
- Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
- To become known; to escape from secrecy. It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
- To happen, take place. Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.
