To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
A fluid perspires.
To cause (someone) to sweat.
Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.
Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.
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