The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perspire \Per*spire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perspired; p. pr. & vb. n. Perspiring.] [L. perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit.]
(Physiol.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.
Wiktionary
Of a person or animal that is producing perspiration; sweating. n. The act of producing perspiration v
(present participle of perspire English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "perspiring".
The sight of these bearded peasants at work on the battlefield, with their queer, clumsy boots and perspiring necks, and their shirts opening from the left toward the middle, unfastened, exposing their sunburned collarbones, impressed Pierre more strongly with the solemnity and importance of the moment than anything he had yet seen or heard.
The skin becomes harsh and dry, not perspiring even under active exercise.
Algernon was perspiring now, and the expression on his face was worried and growing more so by the moment.
He seemed to be having some trouble, possibly because he was perspiring heavily, despite the comfortably cool temperature of the room.
Llanmore was also perspiring faintly, but he turned sharply on his heel and left the control room.
How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads!
Hooven, grimy and perspiring, with his perpetual grievance and his contracted horizon, only revolted him.
The bearded poet, perspiring in furs and boots of reindeer skin, declaimed verses of his own composition about the wild life of the Alaskan mining camps.
The marshals perspiring, shouting, fretting, galloping about, urging this one forward, ordering this one back, ranged the thousands of conveyances and cavaliers in a long line, shaped like a wide open crescent.
Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully.
On its long back sat Daniel, hunched forward, capless, his disheveled gray hair hanging over his flushed, perspiring face.
The corked eyebrows and mustaches were smeared over the perspiring, flushed, and merry faces.
But the Governor did not finish: a dusty perspiring officer ran into the room and began to say something in French.
When he had ascended the hill and reached the little village street, he saw for the first time peasant militiamen in their white shirts and with crosses on their caps, who, talking and laughing loudly, animated and perspiring, were at work on a huge knoll overgrown with grass to the right of the road.
But though toward the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of what they were doing, though they would have been glad to leave off, some incomprehensible, mysterious power continued to control them, and they still brought up the charges, loaded, aimed, and applied the match, though only one artilleryman survived out of every three, and though they stumbled and panted with fatigue, perspiring and stained with blood and powder.