transpire
verbUK /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/ · US /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ/
Etymology 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.
1
Ambitransitive To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
2
Obsolete To perspire.
4
To become known; to escape from secrecy.
- It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
- The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
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- Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.1839, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events:
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Broadly To happen, take place.
- Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 166:
- But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- transpirable, transpiration, transpirometer, untranspired