perspire

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Verb

perspire (perspires, present participle perspiring; past and past participle perspired)

1. (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

   I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

   • 2010, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling

     He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.

2. (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

   A fluid perspires.

Synonyms

• sweat

Related terms

• conspire
• inspire
• perspiration
• respire
• transpire

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