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perspire

Best crossword clue

"Sweat through the skin"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/Part of speech verbSorted eeipprrsStarts with PEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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