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perspiration

[pur-spuh-ray-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

Exposure to heat, with the perspiration that follows, eventually calls for hydration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

When she hits, she’s hilarious: An extended bit about leaving a puddle of her perspiration on a piece of gym equipment involves James Cameron developing a submersible to get to the bottom of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

In the night she would be drenched with perspiration.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

She had considerable rheumatic muscular pains in various parts, and constant profuse perspirations day and night.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

In spite, however, of the profuse perspirations from which he suffered, Ben Zoof, constant to his principles, expressed no surprise at the unwonted heat.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

Dea, when fatigued, suffered from perspirations and drowsiness, and took a daily siesta, as we have already seen.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

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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