perspire

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
   I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
   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.
   A fluid perspires.
3. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.
   Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. 2002 [2001], Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Vintage, 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