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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 danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

So, could this all really signal the end of the once-widespread taboo about talking about perspiration?

From BBC Oct. 16, 2025

Some administrator or superintendent in a starched suit, his flushed face greasy with perspiration.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

There is usually little fever, or at most only a slight heat and thirst towards evening, with occasional flushings of the face; and still more rarely, profuse perspirations in the latter part of the night.

From The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Let us go also to the weakest: They have strange perspirations!

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

The plant, without doubt, is decidedly anti-epileptic, its remedial effects being straightway followed by profuse and fetid perspirations.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

I had been bored with it some weeks—with nocturnal burnings and morning perspirations; but I am quite well again, which I attribute to having had neither medicine nor doctor thereof.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

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




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