sweats
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/swɛts/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.“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.
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”
noun
- A sweatsuit.
- Any illness causing copious perspiration.“I have a bad case of the sweats. Do you think it's the flu?”
- Nervousness.
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