perspire
/pɚˈspaɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
Example Sentences
- "I was perspiring freely after running the marathon."
- "He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print."
- "A fluid perspires."
- "Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired."
- "We shook hands, he looked surprised to see me topless. I stimulated his mind. ¶ “Nice to meet you. My workout jogging perspired me a lot, so I removed the T-shirt.”"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɚˈspaɪɹ/
- British English: /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/