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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sweat \sweat\, v. i. imp. p. p. sweat or sweated obs.
swat; p. pr. vb. n. sweating. oe. sweten, as.
swaetan, fr. sw=at, n., sweat; akin to ofries. os.
sw=et, d. zweet, ohg. sweiz, g. schweiss, icel. sviti,
sveiti, sw. svett, dan. sved, l. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, skr. sv=eda sweat, svid
to sweat. root178. cf. exude, sudary, sudorific.
1. to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --shak.
1913 webster
2. fig.: to perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
1913 webster
he 'd have the poets sweat. --waller.
1913 webster
3. to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
1913 webster
see also:
sweat sweated swat sweating exude sudary
sudorific
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sweating \sweat"ing\,
a. n. from sweat, v.
1913 webster
sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or
sudatory.
sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness.
sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to
scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
sweating room.
a a room for sweating persons.
b dairying a room for sweating cheese and carrying off
the superfluous juices.
sweating sickness med., a febrile epidemic disease which
prevailed in some countries of europe, but particularly in
england, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
characterized by profuse sweating. death often occured in
a few hours.
1913 webster
see also:
sweat sweating bath sweating house sweating iron sweating room sweating sickness
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sweating
adj : being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his
sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" syn: perspiring, sweaty
n : the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a
salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"
syn: perspiration, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis
see also:
perspiring sweaty perspiration diaphoresis sudation hidrosis
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 moby thesaurus words for "sweating":
ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering,
boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy,
condensation, diaphoretic, distillation, drenched with sweat,
dribble, drip, dripping, drop, drudging, ebullient, feverish,
flushed, grilling, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heated, hot,
hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, laboring, leaching,
like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, overheated, overwarm,
parching, pegging, percolation, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot,
plodding, plugging, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching,
searing, seepage, seeping, seething, simmering, sizzling hot,
slaving, slogging, smoking hot, spurtle, sticky, straining,
striving, struggling, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweaty,
sweltering, sweltry, toasting, toiling, torrid, trickle, tricklet,
wet with sweat, white-hot, wilted, working
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