Perspire

Definition: Perspire

Perspire

Verb

1. Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat".

Date "perspire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Tips from 1870	Usage: Perspire, Sweat. While all mankind belongs to the animal kingdom, and no person can feel offended at being called an animal, yet society observes certain distinctions in speaking of men and of beasts. To sweat and to feed are expressions that apply to the latter; to perspire and to eat to the former. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Perspire

Synonym: sweat (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Egress	Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.
Ejection	Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).
Moisture	Be moist. Adjective: not have a dry thread; perspire. (exude).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perspire

English words defined with "perspire": Perspired. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I have, on several occasions, been known to perspire a bit. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)
Lyrics	Which is why I perspire (The Masochism Tango; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Clever	Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Inspire to Perspire V.1 [IMPORT] (reference) Live Long & Perspire (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Waterproof sunscreens should be selected by swimmers and those who perspire sufficiently to wash off nonwaterproof products. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Perspire" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Perspire" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	50%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "perspire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		djersitem (sweat), djersij (sweat), dërsij. (various references)

Arabic		‏عرق (perspiration, race, strain, sweat, transpire, vein), ‏أفرز عرقا. (various references)

Bulgarian		потя се (be dim, be steamy, sweat), избива ме пот. (various references)

Czech		potit (exude), zpotit se. (various references)

Finnish		hikoilla (sweat). (various references)

French		transpirer. (various references)

German		schwitzen (bleed, bleeding, brown in fat, ooze, perspiration, steam up, sweat, sweating, to sweat, transpire). (various references)

Greek		ιδρώνω (sweat, swelter). (various references)

Hebrew		להזיע (sweat). (various references)

Hungarian		párologtat (to evaporate, to fume, to vaporize), verítékezik (to perspire, to sweat), izzad (exude, sweat, to be all of a sweat, to be in a sweat, to exude, to ooze, to perspire, to sweat, to swelter). (various references)

Indonesian		berpeluh (sweaty, transpire), berkeringat (sweaty, transpire). (various references)

Italian		traspirare (sweat, transpire), sudare (sweat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		掻く (to perspire, to scratch), 汗を掻く (to perspire, to sweat), 汗をかく (to perspire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かく (angle, beautiful passage of literature, bishop, case, character, divide, each, every, kernel, nucleus, status, stroke, to break, to chip, to crack, to depict, to describe, to draw, to lack, to paint, to perspire, to scratch, to sketch, to write), あせをかく (to perspire, to sweat). (various references)

Manx		gollish (exudation, sweat, sweating). (various references)

Pig Latin		erspirepay

Portuguese		transpirar (exult, sweat, transpire), transpiração (exude, perspiration, sweat, transpiration). (various references)

Romanian		transpira (exude, filter, leak, melt, slip out, sweat, transpire), suda (blend, fuse, solder, weld), face sã transpire, exsuda. (various references)

Russian		потеть (perspired, sweat, sweats). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		znojiti se (sweat), oznojiti. (various references)

Spanish		sudar (exude, sweat). (various references)

Swedish		svettas (sweat). (various references)

Turkish		terlemek (be hot, exude, ooze with sweat, sweat, swelter, transpire), ter dökmek (ooze with sweat, sweat, sweat blood). (various references)

Ukranian		потіти (parboil, sweat). (various references)

Welsh		chwysu (exude, sweat). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	desudavi, sudatum, sudaveram, sudem, sudes, sudor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perspire": perspired, perspires. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Perspire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perespire, pessaire, pirespire, Pispir, preopria. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "perspire" (pronounced perspī"r)
4	-s p ī" r	aspire, expire, inspire, spire.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-p-p-r-r-s"
	-1 letter: perries, prisere, reprise, respire, rippers.
	-2 letters: pipers, priers, rerise, ripper, sipper, sirree, sprier.
	-3 letters: peeps, peers, peise, peris, perps, perse, piers, piper, pipes, prees, preps, prese, prier, pries, prise, repps, riper, ripes, riser, serer, siree, speer, speir, spier, spire, spree.
	-4 letters: errs, ires, peep, peer, pees, peps, peri, perp, pier, pies, pipe, pips, pree.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-p-p-r-r-s"
	+1 letter: kipperers, peripters, perspired, perspires, preprices.
	+2 letters: fripperies, properties, prophesier, reappraise, slipperier.
	+3 letters: emperorship, epigraphers, peripherals, peripheries, periphrases, premiership, prophesiers, proprieties, reappraised, reappraises, wiretappers.
	+4 letters: emperorships, expropriates, horsewhipper, improperness, preceptories, premierships, preparatives, prepuberties, prescriptive, proprietress, prosperities, pteridosperm, superpremium.
	+5 letters: horsewhippers, hyperparasite, hyperpyrexias, hypertrophies, improprieties, perpetrations, petrographies, preamplifiers, precentorship, preceptorials, preceptorship, preprocessing, proprietaries, pteridosperms, repopularizes, reprographies, superencipher, superpremiums.
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