perspiration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The salty liquid that comes out of your skin when you are hot or nervous; sweat.

   Drops of perspiration ran down his forehead in the heat.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of sweating.

   Perspiration helps cool the body during exercise.

Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”). Morphologically perspire + -ation.

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