perspire

present singular third person perspires · participle present perspiring · participle past perspired · past perspired

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

   I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

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

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

   Synonyms: sweat

2. intransitiveTo be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

   A fluid perspires.

3. ambitransitiverareTo cause (someone) to sweat.

   Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.

   2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3

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   We shook hands, he looked surprised to see me topless. I stimulated his mind. ¶ “Nice to meet you. My workout jogging perspired me a lot, so I removed the T-shirt.”

   2016, Pradip Chauhan, Love Stories, New Delhi: Educreation Publishing, →ISBN, page 48

   Synonyms: sweat