transpire
transpire
/trænˈspaɪə(r)/
(formal)
1 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.
You're meeting him tomorrow? Let me know what transpires.
3 intransitive, transitive transpire (something) (biology) when plants or leaves transpire, water passes out from their surface Word Origin
late 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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