perspireverb [ I ]
uk/pəˈspaɪər/us/pɚˈspaɪɚ/formalor polite word for sweat (= to pass liquid through the skin):
He was perspiring in his thick woollen suit.
The journalists and camera crews began to perspire in the heat as they stood waiting for the president to appear.
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Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- beaded
- bile
- bogy
- bucket
- discharge
- dribble
- expectorate
- jism
- lacteal
- lymphatic
- mucus
- phlegm
- pus
- snot
- spat
- sperm
- spermatozoon
- spit
- spunk
- sweat buckets idiom
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