Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
2. (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
3. (ambitransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.

Example Sentences

I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

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

A fluid perspires.

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

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.”

Word Forms

• perspires
• perspiring
• perspired

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Use perspire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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