EGAVE

perspire

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
    I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
  2. verb To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
    A fluid perspires.
  3. 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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