perspire means to emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
perspire is pronounced /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.
verb
- 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.”