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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reaction to nervousness, fear, pain, or shock, characterized by simultaneous perspiration and chill and cold moist skin.
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- noun the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear
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