perspire

Meaning

Verb

  • To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
  • To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

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Origin

  • Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspirare ("to breathe everywhere, blow constantly"), from per + spirare; see spirit.

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