Verb

(head)

(transpire)

Verb

To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).

(obsolete) To perspire.

(botany) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.

To become known; to escape from secrecy.

The proceedings of the council soon transpired .

* De Quincey

The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.

(loosely) To happen, take place.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 166:

Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired .

Verb

(occurr)

To happen or take place.

* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred , but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}

To present or offer (itself).

(label) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).

* 1995 , (Theodore Kaczynski), Industrial Society and Its Future ,

Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, [...]

(label) To be present or found.