transpire
verb
[ tranˈspʌɪə ]
• (of a secret or something unknown) come to be known; be revealed.
• "it transpired that millions of dollars of debt had been hidden in a complex web of transactions"
Similar:
become known,
become apparent,
be revealed,
be disclosed,
come to light,
emerge,
come out,
get out,
be discovered,
be uncovered,
materialize,
leak out,
turn out,
be made public,
• (of a plant or leaf) give off water vapour through the stomata.
• "a cactus does not transpire as freely as most plants"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘emit as vapour through the surface’): from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- ‘through’ + spirare ‘breathe’. Sense 1 (mid 18th century) is a figurative use comparable with ‘leak out’.
