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PERSPIRE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they perspire ... he / she / it perspires
Past simple: perspired
Past participle: perspired
-ing form: perspiring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
Example:
Exercise makes one sweat
Synonyms:
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)
