perspiring

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ === Adjective === perspiring (comparative more perspiring, superlative most perspiring) Producing perspiration; sweating. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === perspiring (countable and uncountable, plural perspirings) 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 present participle and gerund of perspire