perspiring

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ

Adjective

perspiring (comparative more perspiring, superlative most perspiring)

1. Producing perspiration; sweating.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.

Translations

sweating

• Esperanto: ŝvita

Noun

perspiring (countable and uncountable, plural perspirings)

1. The act of producing perspiration.
   • 2015, Seneca (in translation), Dialogues (page 173)

     Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.

Synonyms

• sweating

Verb

perspiring

1. present participle and gerund of perspire