Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perspiring

/pɚspˈaɪɹɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: per-spir-ing
IPA: /pɚspˈaɪɹɪŋ/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing perspiration; sweating.

noun

The act of producing perspiration.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of perspire

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

more perspiring (comparative) most perspiring (superlative) perspirings (plural)

Derived Forms

perspiringly

Synonyms

sweating

Rhymes With

firing hiring inspiring acquiring retiring aspiring wiring tiring admiring conspiring expiring uninspiring

Questions

How do you pronounce perspiring?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɚspˈaɪɹɪŋ/.
What does perspiring mean?: Producing perspiration; sweating.

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