Perspire vs Strive - What's the difference?
perspire | strive |
To emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores.
To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between perspire and strive
is that perspire is to emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores while strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.As a noun strive is
an effort; a striving.perspire
English
Verb
(perspir)- A fluid perspires .
Synonyms
* sweatExternal links
* *strive
English
Verb
- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .