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Definitions for Perspire
pərˈspaɪərper·spire

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sweat, sudate, perspireverb

    excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

    "Exercise makes one sweat"

Wiktionary

  1. perspireverb

    to emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores

  2. Etymology: From perspirer, from perspirare, from per + spirare; see spirit.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To PERSPIREverb

    Etymology: perspiro, Lat.

    Water, milk, whey taken without much exercise, so as to make them perspire, relax the belly. Arbuthnot.

Wikipedia

  1. perspire

    Perspiration, also known as sweating, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. The apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition. In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2–4 liters per hour or 10–14 liters per day (10–15 g/min·m2), but is less in children prior to puberty. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to evaporative cooling. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx. Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few (exceptions include humans and horses) produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down.

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  1. perspire

    To perspire means to secrete sweat or moisture through the pores of the skin, typically in response to heat, physical exertion, or stress. This physiological process helps the body to regulate its temperature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Perspireverb

    to excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat

  2. Perspireverb

    to be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires

  3. Perspireverb

    to emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores

  4. Etymology: [L. perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Perspire

    per-spīr′, v.i. and v.t. to emit or to be emitted, as moisture, through the pores of the skin: to sweat.—n. Perspirabil′ity.—adj. Perspīr′able, capable of being perspired.—v.i. Per′spirāte (rare), to sweat.—n. Perspirā′tion, act of perspiring: that which is perspired: moisture given out through the pores of the skin: sweat.—adj. Perspīr′atory, pertaining to or causing perspiration. [L. perspirāre, -ātumper, through, spirāre, to breathe.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Perspire in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Perspire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Perspire in a Sentence

  1. Chase Leblanc:

    Fate and time may conspire to fade your youthful shimmer but you must constantly perspire in order to insure your shine.

  2. Proverb:

    Don't kneel in front of a saint who doesn't perspire.

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