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transpired
[ tran-spahyuhrd ]
adjective
- (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.
- 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%.
- 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
- the simple past tense and past participle of transpire.
Other Words From
- un·tran·spired adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of transpired1
Example Sentences
"It didn't materialise obviously, because as it transpired he wasn't real. But I didn't know that at the time," he says.
“This whole game, really, this whole series, there were a lot of crazy things that transpired,” said Andrew Friedman, Dodgers president of baseball operations.
The men, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory who each had a handgun on their person, were arrested before any violence transpired.
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.
It transpired the two men had sat together during a party fundraising dinner two months previously.
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