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perspiration

[pur-spuh-rey-shuhn] / ˈpɜr spəˈreɪ ʃən /


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Your skin is slightly shining from perspiration, but you barely feel the heat because you get to enjoy the cold deliciousness of a frozen yogurt pop.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2026

"There are even some rather moving, rather touching details -- namely, its silk lining shows clear signs of perspiration," he said.

From Barron's Mar. 26, 2026

He begins “Hotwired” with an accessible tour through the biology and evolutionary history of perspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

Against New Zealand, they were heavy on perspiration, but light on inspiration.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2024

He glared at us, his face streaming with perspiration.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

As the disease advances, the countenance becomes very pale, and the flesh wastes, and profuse night perspirations, great debility, swelling of the ankles, and nervousness ensue.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull

If there are weakening perspirations, atropin should be given, especially as it is also a circulatory stimulant.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

The thought took hold of me, somehow, like an octopus, and I used to writhe under it, and get into fearful perspirations.

From Love's Pilgrimage by Upton Sinclair

Surely if there were no other argument for a change of type in the House, these poor knitted brows, these public perspirations of the gentry who "cannot understand P.R.," should suffice.

From In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

One person became hysterical, then another; one was seized with catalepsy, then others; some with convulsions; some with palpitations of the heart, perspirations, and other bodily disturbances.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various




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