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perspire

verb as in become wet with sweat

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He couldn’t have been sweating on the dancefloor because an “overdose of adrenaline’’ during his time as a helicopter pilot in the 1982 Falklands War had left him unable to perspire.

Your nose will perspire and you will feel compelled to touch it.

Scientists believe that if you perspire more during the later questions, then you are lying.

The whole concept behind the machine is that people will perspire more while telling a lie.

When you perspire, the sweat on your skin can pull heat from your body as it evaporates.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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