perspire

verb

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

1. To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

   “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.”

2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

   “A fluid perspires.”

3. To cause (someone) to sweat.

   “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.””