perspires

Verb

perspire (third-person singular simple present perspires, present participle perspiring, simple past and past participle perspired)

1. (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
   • I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

   Synonyms:

   sweat

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.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3

   Synonyms:

   sweat