Definition of "perspire"

perspire

/pə(ɹ)ˈspaɪə(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present perspires, present participle perspiring, simple past and past participle perspired
1. (transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
  Quotations
  He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.
  2010, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling
2. (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
3. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.
  Quotations
  Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.
  2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, page 3
  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.”
  2016, Pradip Chauhan, Love Stories, New Delhi: Educreation Publishing, page 48