verb (formal)
1 [Vthat] (not usually used in the progressive tenses) if it transpires that sth has happened or is true, it is known or has been shown to be true:
It transpired that the gang had had a contact inside the bank. * This story, it later transpired, was untrue.
2 [V] to happen:
You're meeting him tomorrow? Let me know what transpires.
3 [V, VN] (biology) when plants or leaves transpire, water passes out from their surface
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