transpire
transpire is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
- intransitive verb. To evaporate from living cells.
- intransitive verb. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired.
- intransitive verb. To happen or come to pass; to occur.
- transitive verb. To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.
- transitive verb. To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.
- verb. give off (water) through the skin
- verb. come about, happen, or occur
"Several important events transpired last week"
- verb. come to light; become known
"It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany"
- verb. exude water vapor
"plants transpire"
- verb. pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas
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Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in transpire:
prestrain, pretrains, terrapins
Common word forms
transpired, transpires, transpiring
Words from these letters
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