sweating
Dictionary
verb
- To emit sweat.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To work hard.
"I've been sweating over my essay all day."
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
"to sweat a spendthrift"
- To worry.
- To worry about (something).
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
"to sweat blood"
- To emit moisture.
"The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it."
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To stress out.
"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).
noun
- The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
- Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
- The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.
Synonyms:perspiration
adjective
- Giving off sweat.
"A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel."
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