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transpire
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas [syn: transpirate ] exude water vapor; "plants transpire" come to light; become known; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany" come about, happen, or occur; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.). (from 16th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) To perspire. (17th-19th c.) 3 (context botany English) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomat (from 17th c.) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I was surprised at what transpired. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As it transpired though, he was to find the lease of the le Fleming mines unavailable. ▪ He arrived after supper that evening, having spent the previous night, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "pass off in the form of a vapor or liquid," from Middle French transpirer (16c.), from Latin trans- "through" (see trans- ) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). Figurative sense of "leak out, become known" is recorded from 1741, and the erroneous ...
Usage examples of transpire.
All that had transpired since the first murders at Allure was suddenly redefined for everyone, especially the public, who would hear and greedily read about the new twists and turns the following morning at the latest.
If the drow or the fiend are able to relay to anyoneanyone at allwhat transpired here today, you will lose your backing from the other Houses.
In her hazy half-asleep state, with her eyes still closed and her senses not yet fully alert, Maire mulled over the events that had transpired the previous day and what she must do on this new day.
There was an edge to her voice that we had never heard from Mousie Moore and I knew then that whatever else had transpired on that lost island, the woman who had been rescued was not the one I had lost.
Much had already transpired, as Adams learned from meetings with John Jay and a young American merchant named Matthew Ridley, whom Adams had met earlier in Holland and who, though he had no official role, seemed to know all that was going on.
He was overcome, it seemed, by the affection which it now transpired that Little Arcady bore for him.
Their thoughts were on what had transpired in recent months on the Cana road, and at the wedding feast.
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His future depended upon what transpired here in this place far from the Lacandon jungle.
Sir Stuart Macclesfield, it transpired, was in a nursing home recovering from pneumonia.
Science was moving from a world of macrophysics, where objects could be seen and held and measured, to one of microphysics, where events transpire with unimaginable swiftness on scales far below the limits of imagining.
He told the American what had transpired and that he and Monsignor Mansoni were waiting for him in his office.
It transpired that a technical sub-committee had been called once, and had recommended a further investigation of the Poulsen System.
And in truth, if we can believe what has since transpired through the quarrels of accomplices, it appears that in the event of a sudden attack being made by us upon Mazas to deliver them, a fusillade had been resolved upon, and that St.
The following day Henry returned to Oxford and Amelia and her husband left for London without Katherine, whose mind was filled with confusion over what had transpired the previous day.