(transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores. / (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

The action or process of perspiring. / (by extension) Hard work. / A saline fluid secreted by the sweat glands; sweat.

A person who perspires (sweats).

Capable of being perspired. / Emitting perspiration; perspiring.

The quality or state of being perspirable.

(now rare) Performing the act of perspiration or sweating; perspiratory.

simple past tense and past participle of perspirate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perspirate

present participle of perspirate

Any substance that induces perspiration.