armpit

Examples

• All

• At the same time, he felt his armpits sweating and his body growing cold.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Pain or discomfort in the breast or armpit that is persistent and different from usual.

  Academic text (2012)

• I stick my free hand under my armpit and look around the dark apartment.

  Fiction book (1993)

• - Keep pressure on his armpit.

  It Never Sleeps (2014)

• Then she pressed it under her armpit as if to squeeze the pain out of it.

  Fiction book (1990)

• When you sweat from the armpit, it goes into your body linens.

• Frustrated, I withdraw my arm from her armpit, which is as warm as under a hen's wing.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The day of the photo shoot, I shower twice and shave my armpits in a back-and-forth, crisscross fashion.

  Girl Play (2004)

• Eneas clasped her under the armpits and dragged her onto the bank.

  Fiction book (1991)

• After the hike, he raised his arm to dry the sweat from his armpit.

Synonyms

U

underarm

vsarmpit

• UK

5 1.0

The area under the arm where it meets the shoulder

is a neutral anatomical label rather than casual speech

A

axilla

vsarmpit

• Specialized

1 8.6

A hollow area under the arm where it meets the shoulder

is the neutral everyday name without medical tone

A

axillary cavity

vsarmpit

• Specialized

6.4

The hollow under the arm near the shoulder, often called the armpit

is the general everyday term rather than a medical label

A

axillary fossa

vsarmpit

• Specialized

7.3

A hollow area under the arm near the shoulder

is the plain common word instead of anatomical phrasing

Compounds

A

armpit sweat

1 2.3

Wetness under the arms that appears when you are hot

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology