| VERB | body | perspire, sweat, sudate | excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin |
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| Sounds | perspay'r | |
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| Rhymes | admire ... wire: 34 rhymes with ayr... | |
| Meaning | excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | Sam and Sue perspire | |
| Synonyms | sweat, sudate | |
| Narrower | swelter | Suffer from intense heat / heat |
| Broader | excrete, egest, eliminate, pass | Eliminate from the body |
| Spanish | sudar, transpirar | |
| Catalan | suar, transpirar | |
| Nouns | perspiration | salty fluid secreted by sweat glands |
| perspiration | the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | |
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