perspirate

perspirate adjective: sweaty; moist with perspiration.

Adjective

perspirate (comparative more perspirate, superlative most perspirate)

(rare) Sweaty; moist with perspiration.
- Terse and perspirate, Murphy's wife takes a swipe at the pistol, but Michael moves out of her reach, and keeping it trained on the back of his father's skull, he repeats his question: Why don't you come back daddy?1967, Transatlantic Review, Issues 26-29

perspirate (third-person singular simple present perspirates, present participle perspirating, simple past and past participle perspirated)

(dated) To perspire; to sweat.
- The sun bursts out in furious blaze, / I perspirate from head to heel ; / I'd like to hire a one-horse chaise — / How can I, without cash at Lille ?1883, William Makepeace Thackeray, The complete poems of W.M. Thackeray
- "So we stood Brown up agin a tree and poured hot ashes down his back till he begun to fit his cloze pretty quick, and then we laid him down in the tent and covered him up with everything we had in our humble cot. Everything worked well till he begun to perspirate, and then there was music, and...1886, Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye, Remarks

Adjective
comparative	more perspirate
superlative	most perspirate
Verb
third-person singular present	perspirates
present participle	perspirating
past participle	perspirated
past	perspirated

What does perspirate mean?: Perspirate means sweaty; moist with perspiration.
What part of speech is perspirate?: Perspirate can be an adjective or a verb.

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