1. occur; happen: "I'm going to find out exactly what transpired"Similarhappenoccurtake placecome aboutcome to passcrop upturn uparisechanceensuebefallbe realizedtake shapepan outend up
▪ prove to be the case: "as it transpired, he was right"
▪ (of a secret or something unknown) come to be known; be revealed: "Yaddo, it transpired, had been under FBI surveillance for some time"Similarbecome knownbecome apparentbe revealedbe disclosedcome to lightemergecome outget outbe discoveredbe uncoveredmaterializeleak outturn outbe made public
2. (of a plant or leaf) give off water vapor through the stomata.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘emit as vapor through the surface’): from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- ‘through’ + spirare ‘breathe’. Sense 1 (mid 18th century) is a figurative use comparable with ‘leak out’.