transpire.
To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word 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.
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