perspire

UK /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ US /pɚˈspaɪɹ/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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

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.

2

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

A fluid perspires.

3

To cause (someone) to sweat.

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.”

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