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

Health care workers like Cline were captive to the machinations transpiring overhead, unsure why they didn’t have the protection they needed.

From ProPublica

Don’t minimize your role when things are tough, have ownership over what’s transpiring.

From Freakonomics

Such collusion requires a single entity to control over 50% of the network—a risk that is is remote in the case of Bitcoin, but which has transpired in the case of smaller digital currencies.

From Fortune

You witness what transpired during the brutal throwdown between Hyrule's soldiers and the minions of the gross, fiery-eyed, skull-headed monster of “hatred and malice incarnate,” Calamity Ganon.

From Washington Post

The ratings agency warned that such a departure could indeed transpire, given the extent to which the pandemic could put America’s “electoral infrastructure under strain.”

From Fortune

Greste has also taken a stand in prison as a staunch critic of what has transpired.

From The Daily Beast

The Barclays Center where the Duke and Duchess will be seated would have stood in thick of where the pivotal action transpired.

From The Daily Beast

But Lewis could describe what transpired in the minutes that followed.

From The Daily Beast

What actually transpired could have landed Rice in prison for between three and five years.

From The Daily Beast

Many of us have watched in horror at the events as they have transpired in this suburb of St. Louis.

From The Daily Beast

Their reason for altering this plan and sending Peter to the School of Jurisprudence has not transpired.

From Project Gutenberg

It transpired, when the men came up, that there was no unanimity about going to Government House.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing further transpired, however, and the readers of the halfpenny press for once were deprived of their sensation.

From Project Gutenberg

And then it transpired that even a greater sacrifice was required of her—she was to be forbidden to see Thyrsis at all!

From Project Gutenberg

First, nothing was to be expected from investigation at the Rectory; and to be brief, nothing has transpired.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• arise
• befall
• ensue