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Perspiring
- verb - excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"
Persuading
- verb - cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
- win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"
Pertaining
- verb - be a part or attribute of
- be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
Perturbing
- verb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
- throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Petrifying
- verb - cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
- paralyzing with terror
Phenelzine
- noun - monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression
Phenytoins
- noun - an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative
Philippine
- adjective - of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs; "the Philippine President"; "our Filipino cook"
- official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages
Philistine
- adjective - a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
- a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
- of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people
- smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values