transpire
About 0.25 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- verb To perspire.
- verb Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
- verb To become known; to escape from secrecy.
It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
- verb To happen, take place.
Similar words
transpirate emerge occur happen prove exhale perspire expire vaporate effuse
Often followed by
in that at to between before from as during
Word family
transpired transpires transpiring
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