"perspirate" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more perspirate [comparative], most perspirate [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} perspirate (comparative more perspirate, superlative most perspirate)
  1. (rare) Sweaty; moist with perspiration. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-perspirate-en-adj-aBMuPOKi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30

Verb

Forms: perspirates [present, singular, third-person], perspirating [participle, present], perspirated [participle, past], perspirated [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} perspirate (third-person singular simple present perspirates, present participle perspirating, simple past and past participle perspirated)
  1. (dated) To perspire; to sweat. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-perspirate-en-verb-al-SISRR

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1967, Transatlantic Review, Issues 26-29,\nTerse and perspirate, Murphy's wife takes a swipe at the pistol, but Michael moves out of her reach, and keeping it trained on the back of his father's skull, he repeats his question: Why don't you come back daddy?"
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          "text": "The sun bursts out in furious blaze, / I perspirate from head to heel ; / I'd like to hire a one-horse chaise — / How can I, without cash at Lille ?",
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          "text": "1886, Edgar Wilson \"Bill\" Nye, Remarks,\n\"So we stood Brown up agin a tree and poured hot ashes down his back till he begun to fit his cloze pretty quick, and then we laid him down in the tent and covered him up with everything we had in our humble cot. Everything worked well till he begun to perspirate, and then there was music, and don't you forget it. That kind of soaked the ashes, don't you see, and made a lye that would take the peelin' off a telegraph pole."
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