perspire

(redirected from perspired)
Also found in: Dictionary, Medical.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • verb

Synonyms for perspire

sweat

Synonyms

  • sweat
  • glow
  • swelter
  • drip with sweat
  • break out in a sweat
  • pour with sweat
  • secrete sweat
  • be damp or wet or soaked with sweat
  • exude sweat
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for perspire

to excrete moisture through the pores of the skin

Synonyms

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for perspire

excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Last night he 69-year-old golfer and grandad puffed and perspired through a cheeky Charleston to It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing.
"One made me a bench, others weeded, planted, planned and perspired over both front and back, learning along the way that tomatoes didn't grow on trees and carrots grew underground.
The researchers then ran tiny currents across the volunteers' skin to monitor how much they perspired as they looked at pictures of sunsets, cute animals, fist fights and vomit - pictures already known to evoke an automatic sweat response.
There were a few shirt changes as Morrissey's new stocky build perspired to Tony Blair proportions.
Fitness guru persevered and perspired her way to success
Action hero Mel perspired, winced in discomfort and painfully croaked: "I woke up and I couldn't talk."
Moreover, during the 4 seconds prior to choosing the high-risk cards, normal volunteers perspired more than they did before turning over the other cards.