perspiring
present participle ofperspire
perspire
verb[I]
formaluk/pəˈspaɪər/us/pɚˈspaɪɚ/orpolite wordforsweat(= topassliquidthrough theskin):
He was perspiring in histhickwoollensuit.
Thejournalistsandcameracrewsbeganto perspire in theheatas theystoodwaitingfor thepresidenttoappear.
Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- beaded
- bilirubin
- bogey
- bogy
- bucket
- discharge
- dribble
- dribbling
- gob
- jism
- lather
- perspiration
- pus
- snot
- sperm
- spit
- synovial
- transpiration
- uric acid
- weeping
Examplesofperspiring
perspiring
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
He is alwaysperspiringfrom the time he puts the stuff on board until he gets it to its destination.
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I amperspiringto know which is the case?
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Was a man who is normally cool when talking, hot andperspiringwhen he gave his evidence to the court?
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He implied, with that air ofperspiringvirtue in which he finished the speech, that he, the virtuous, had chosen to import timber—though heaven knows where that is—rather than petrol.
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After working all the day in great heat, they come outperspiring, and then have to stand for 10, 20 or 30 minutes waiting for buses.
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In winter the earth flooded and became a flat,perspiringlake.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Perspiringdue to nerves and a lingering cold, the tenor clutched a handkerchief throughout the dbut.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Diaphoresis is the medical term for profuse sweating orperspiring.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The opportunity to swim here is irresistible to aperspiringrambler, despite the pebble beach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sitting andperspiringbeside such a brazier was called "ad flammam sudare".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He can play on the piano every piece of music ever written, his left hand a blur of fumbled bass notes, while his spectacles slide down hisperspiringnose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The horse wasperspiringheavily.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Rutherford addressed the leader of each side in turn, at times bombastically belligerent, at times profanely pacific, but at all times profuselyperspiring.
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- successful recovery
- successful reform
- successful reproduction
- successful summit
- successful transition
- successful transplant
- succession
- successional
- succession crisis
- succession crisis
- succession plan
- succession plan
- succession planning
- succession-planning
- succession provisions
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- successive
- successive approximation
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- successive attempt
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- successive editions
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