transpire

Meaning

1. (ambitransitive) To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To perspire.
3. (intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
4. (intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy.
5. (broadly, intransitive) To happen, take place.

Synonyms

happen

occur

transpirate

take place

evaporate

hap

come about

turn up

evaporation

betide

fall out

be

come

pass

go on

fortune

get

give

go

pass off

penetrate

perspire

pervade

produce

set in

sweat

😓

transpiration

turn

turn out

vaporisation

vaporise

vaporization

vaporize

vaporizing

well up

come forth

vaporising

be spent

issue forth

sudate

steam generation

vaporation

boil-off

arise

evaporization

atmometer

bechance

become

befall

chance

🎲

Translations

transpirer

transpirar

geschehen

olmak

transpirar

schwitzen

😓

xwêdan

😓

afspelen

accadere

succedere

apparaître

çêbûn

αποκαλύπτομαι

sich ereignen

arriver

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/

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.