Usually means: Sweats due to heat, exertion.
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  1. perspires: Merriam-Webster
  2. perspires: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perspires: Vocabulary.com
  4. perspires: Wordnik
  5. perspires: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perspires: Wiktionary
  7. perspires: Dictionary.com
  8. perspires: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. perspires: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perspires: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. perspires: Medical dictionary

(Note: See perspire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (perspire)

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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