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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

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

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

From BBC Nov. 8, 2024

The drops running down Judith's face—I'd assumed they were melted snow, but they're perspiration.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

Until this period, abundant local perspirations in the day-time, less abundant, but more general ones in the night, were observable.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

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

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

But with all this he was a total stranger to sleep; he burst out into immoderate perspirations; and there was scarcely any thing that remained of him, but skin and bone.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

The appetite is in abeyance, the animal quickly becomes what is termed 'tucked-up,' or greyhound-like, in the body, and patchy perspirations break out about him.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton




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