Usually means: Sweating in response to heat.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word perspire:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. perspire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perspire: Merriam-Webster
  3. perspire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perspire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perspire: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perspire: Vocabulary.com
  7. perspire: Wordnik
  8. perspire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perspire: Wiktionary
  10. perspire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perspire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perspire: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perspire: Dictionary.com
  14. perspire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Perspire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. perspire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. perspire: Rhymezone
  18. perspire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. perspire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. perspire: FreeDictionary.org
  21. perspire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. perspire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. perspire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perspire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. perspire: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. perspire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
verb:  (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
verb:  (ambitransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.

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