Perspire
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Perspire is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
- (ambitransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.
Example Sentences
A fluid perspires.
I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.
He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.
Word Forms
- perspires
- perspiring
- perspired
Synonyms for perspire
Depending on context, synonyms include sweat.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sweat, perspirate, exude, swelter, drool, effuse.
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