Definition of "transpire" []

• To give off (vapor containing waste products) through the pores of the skin or the stomata of plant tissue. (verb-transitive)
• To become known; come to light. (verb-intransitive)
• Usage Problem To come about; happen or occur. (verb-intransitive)
• To give off vapor containing waste products, as through animal or plant pores. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire"
• "How many toilsome and anxious hours he passed in the war department, and how well he understood all that was transpiring and all that ought to transpire, is made apparent in the letters he himself wrote to Gen. McClellan during the fifteen months of his command."
• "She cautioned Morton not to let a word transpire that they had held any conversation during the time they had been together, and to speak but little before Mrs. Belton, lest she should suspect what had really happened."