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UK
/tɹænspˈaɪə/
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[ US /tɹænˈspaɪɝ/ ]
[ US /tɹænˈspaɪɝ/ ]
VERB
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come about, happen, or occur
Several important events transpired last week -
exude water vapor
plants transpire -
come to light; become known
It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany - give off (water) through the skin
- pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas
How To Use transpire In A Sentence
- I also picture an room where you will be able to go and relive any moment in history exactly as it transpired. Christianity Today
- It now transpires they were right. Times, Sunday Times
- If it transpires that the patient has not yet attended the general practitioner for this diabetic review one reminder prompt is sent.
- Students were also asked to provide a narrative of what transpired during their last blackout based upon what they could recall on their own and what others told them.
- Tremendous changes have transpired during the last decade in Central and Eastern Europe, both in the economy and in the westernization of everyday life.
- It transpired that heroin was not the miracle-cure for morphinism that some of its early boosters had supposed.
- Now it transpires they may be linked to a woman's infertility. The Sun
- British voters were disgruntled but not, it transpired, disengaged. Times, Sunday Times
- More than a quarter of a century has now transpired since his election.
- It transpires that she has flown over spontaneously and unannounced to visit him. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
