0 present participle of transpire --
1 If it transpires that something has happened, this previously secret or unknown fact becomes known: --
2 to happen: --
No one is willing to predict what may transpire at the peace conference.
3 If a body or plant transpires, it loses water through its surface or skin. --
He discovers that she has been recording what has been transpiring and proceeds to burn the tape.
At this point they wilt and cease transpiring altogether.
The recent events transpiring within our federal government make this film topical and poignant.
This also includes commercial and business areas where commerce is transpiring.
He is absolutely unaware of the happenings transpiring around him.
Additional moisture comes from more local sources, especially transpiring vegetation.
In a transpiring surface, small amounts of a coolant such as water are pumped through small holes in the aircraft's skin (see transpiration and perspiration).
It would have been keenly resented if he had gone to the proprietor of the property and found fault with him over anything that was transpiring.
