Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to perspire
Participle: perspired
Gerund: perspiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | perspire |
| you | perspire |
| he;she;it | perspires |
| we | perspire |
| you | perspire |
| they | perspire |
Perfect
| I | have perspired |
| you | have perspired |
| he;she;it | has perspired |
| we | have perspired |
| you | have perspired |
| they | have perspired |
Past
| I | perspired |
| you | perspired |
| he;she;it | perspired |
| we | perspired |
| you | perspired |
| they | perspired |
Pluperfect
| I | had perspired |
| you | had perspired |
| he;she;it | had perspired |
| we | had perspired |
| you | had perspired |
| they | had perspired |
Future
| I | will perspire |
| you | will perspire |
| he;she;it | will perspire |
| we | will perspire |
| you | will perspire |
| they | will perspire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have perspired |
| you | will have perspired |
| he;she;it | will have perspired |
| we | will have perspired |
| you | will have perspired |
| they | will have perspired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | perspire |
| you | perspire |
| he;she;it | perspire |
| we | perspire |
| you | perspire |
| they | perspire |
Perfect
| I | have perspired |
| you | have perspired |
| he;she;it | have perspired |
| we | have perspired |
| you | have perspired |
| they | have perspired |
Imperfect
| I | perspired |
| you | perspired |
| he;she;it | perspired |
| we | perspired |
| you | perspired |
| they | perspired |
Pluperfect
| I | had perspired |
| you | had perspired |
| he;she;it | had perspired |
| we | had perspired |
| you | had perspired |
| they | had perspired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would perspire |
| you | would perspire |
| he;she;it | would perspire |
| we | would perspire |
| you | would perspire |
| they | would perspire |
Perfect
| I | would have perspired |
| you | would have perspired |
| he;she;it | would have perspired |
| we | would have perspired |
| you | would have perspired |
| they | would have perspired |
Imperative
| you | perspire |
| we | Let's perspire |
| you | perspire |
Verbs conjugated like 'perspire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'perspire'
perspirate,
respire,
acrospire,
aspire,
bespice,
bespirt,
conspire,
desire,
despike,
despine,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit. See: Latin '
perspīrō'.
Sample Sentences
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I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
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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:]
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A fluid perspires.
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Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. [2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:]
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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, →ISBN, page 48:]