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perspire🔊

To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

📑 Synonyms: sweat
💬 Quotations
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont, O the oont, O the commissariat oont! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.

To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

(rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.

📑 Synonyms: sweat