perspire

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
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/pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ · /pɚˈspaɪɹ/ · /pɚˈspaɪɚ/ · /pəˈspɑɪə(ɹ)/

Definition of perspire

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)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.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)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. (intransitive)To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
    “A fluid perspires.”
  3. (ambitransitive, rare)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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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

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