sweats
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Definitions ofsweats
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
Synonyms: perspiration
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
Example: "Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat."
- (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- The sweating sickness.
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
Example: "the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack"
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- Hard work; toil.
- To emit sweat.
Synonyms: perspire
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To work hard.
Example: "I've been sweating over my essay all day."
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
Example: "to sweat a spendthrift"
- To worry.
- To worry about (something).
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
Example: "to sweat blood"
- To emit moisture.
Example: "The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it."
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To stress out.
Example: "Stop sweatin' me!"
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- To scrape the sweat from (a horse).
- A sweatsuit.
- Any illness causing copious perspiration.
Example: "I have a bad case of the sweats. Do you think it's the flu?"
- Nervousness.
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