perspire
About 0.16 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
- verb To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
A fluid perspires.
- verb To cause (someone) to sweat.
Similar words
sweat perspirate exude swelter pit out sweat out drool effuse expectorate suspire
Often followed by
freely and profusely more in heavily a as so
Word family
perspired perspires perspiring
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