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What does perspire mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores.
  2. (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
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Romans would sit and perspire, and their skin was scraped with a curved metal tool called a strigil.
Greater surface area provides more exposed skin to perspire and cool the body through evaporation, he says.
Nearby spectators perspire profusely because of the intensity of the radiated heat.
He first started feeling unwell about 10 minutes into the broadcast and began to perspire very heavily.
When he or she begins to perspire they will lose moisture as well electrolytes, or ions.
See their sheets and imagine the quantity of water which they can perspire.

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