Definition of "perspiring" in English

adjective

1. Producing perspiration; sweating.

noun

1. The act of producing perspiration.

   • 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.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of perspire