PERSPIRE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they perspire ... he / she / it perspires

Past simple: perspired

Past participle: perspired

-ing form: perspiring

Meaning:

Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

Example:

Exercise makes one sweat

Synonyms:

perspire; sudate; sweat

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "perspire" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "perspire"):

swelter (suffer from intense heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue perspire

Derivation:

perspiration (salty fluid secreted by sweat glands)

perspiration (the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid)