perspire
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Is perspire a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.Examples: "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."Synonyms: sweatambitransitive
2. (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.Examples: "A fluid perspires."intransitive
3. (ambitransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.Examples: "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.”"Synonyms: sweatambitransitiverare
Definition source: Wiktionary