transpired

[ tran-spahyuhrd ]

adjective

1. (of events) having taken place:

   If it weren't for a few recently transpired events, this may have very well been a day of celebration.

2. emitted or given off through the surface, as of the body, leaves, or porous material:

   Recycling transpired water in the greenhouse can reduce water requirements for the plants inside it by as much as 90 to 99%.

3. Environmental Science. relating to or being a panel or sheet having perforations allowing the passage of air heated by solar energy:

   The transpired air collector—a metal sheet with tiny holes to pull air through—takes advantage of the sunlight to heat the building on a cold Colorado day.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of transpire.

Other Words From

• un·tran·spired adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of transpired¹

transpire ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Instead, what transpired were conversations in which strangers shared freely, and intimately.

From Los Angeles Times

"It didn't materialise obviously, because as it transpired he wasn't real. But I didn't know that at the time," he says.

From BBC

“This whole game, really, this whole series, there were a lot of crazy things that transpired,” said Andrew Friedman, Dodgers president of baseball operations.

From Los Angeles Times

The men, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory who each had a handgun on their person, were arrested before any violence transpired.

From Salon

So, as I heard the commissioner’s deputy forbidding me to enter, I wondered what transpired after my meeting with John to have both teams’ locker rooms be off limits to me.

From Los Angeles Times

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