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perspire

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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per·spire /pəˈspaɪə $ pərˈspaɪr/ verb [intransitive] formal  HBHif you perspire, parts of your body become wet, especially because you are hot or have been doing hard work 出汗,流汗 SYN sweat Willie was perspiring heavily. 威利大汗淋漓。
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perspireShe felt hot and awkward and started to perspire.As he struggled to make the cut in Majorca, his lips were dry and his forehead was perspiring.Colonel Feather's face was getting red, and he was beginning to perspire.Pressing up, he clutched at a pair of feet, surprised to find them bare and perspiring.He was perspiring and would have liked to take off his jacket.Pham Van Dong, perspiring as the heavyweights encircled him, now accepted a partition at the sixteenth parallel.He was perspiring. It showed on his forehead.No wonder his feet perspire profusely and are prone to athlete's foot.James, who was perspiring profusely, took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.You have probably been perspiring quite impressively too, and you are beginning to have fantasies of pints of a cool drink.She found that she was perspiring, the cool wind contracted her skin.
Origin perspire (1600-1700) French perspirer, from Latin spirare to breathe
per·spire verbChineseSyllable
your wet, you parts body perspire, especially of become if Corpus


perspire
perspire /pəˈspaɪə $ pərˈspaɪr/ verb [intransitive] formal
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: French
 Origin: perspirer, from Latin spirare 'to breathe'
if you perspire, parts of your body become wet, especially because you are hot or have been doing hard work
   SYN  sweat:
    Willie was perspiring heavily.


per·spireBrE /pəˈspaɪə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /pərˈspaɪər/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they perspire BrE /pəˈspaɪə(r)/ 🔊 NAmE /pərˈspaɪər/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it perspires BrE /pəˈspaɪəz/ 🔊 NAmE /pərˈspaɪərz/ 🔊past simple perspired BrE /pəˈspaɪəd/ 🔊 NAmE /pərˈspaɪərd/ 🔊past participle perspired BrE /pəˈspaɪəd/ 🔊 NAmE /pərˈspaɪərd/ 🔊 -ing form perspiring BrE /pəˈspaɪərɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /pərˈspaɪərɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] (formal) to produce sweat on your body 出汗;排汗;发汗 SYN sweat