transpired

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past simple and past participle of

If it transpires that something has happened, this previously secret or unknown fact becomes known:

[ + that ] It may yet transpire that ministers knew more than they are admitting at the moment.

As it later transpired, she had known him at school.

to happen:

No one is willing to predict what may transpire at the peace conference.

If a body or plant transpires, it loses water through its surface or skin.