sweat
290
1.0
- noun
- /swɛt/
:
sudor
- The athlete wiped the sweat from his forehead after the intense match.
- sweat glands
- wipe off the sweat
- night sweats
The breeze blows across your sweat and across your skin.
- The breeze blows across your sweat and across your skin.
- I am drenched in sweat, but I am done.
- We do blood, urine, stool, sweat, we do all of that.
- So how did police plant his sweat under her car hood?
- And then you can capture what's coming out in sweat, feces and urine.
- I'm dripping in sweat, scrubbing now.
Examples
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I am drenched in sweat, but I am done.
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His sweat had a spicy smell.
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I mean, you can smell sweat.
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Well, you could see sweat pouring off their face.
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After approximately 40 minutes, sufficient sweat had been collected at the test sites.
Academic text (1993) -
I'm literally dripping sweat down my nose.
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I don't think I've ever been this covered in sweat before.
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No sweat.
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They come back, sweat, totally sweaty, messed up.
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It makes them soaked with sweat and they're crying.
Synonyms
12
2.5
A salty liquid that the body makes when it is hot, active, or nervous
A salty liquid the body makes when it is hot or stressed
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- US
5
2.0
A matching set of loose, comfortable clothes with sweatpants and a sweatshirt for exercise or casual wear
- Specialized
1
3.7
A tiny tube in the skin that carries salty liquid from a gland to the outer skin
How Common
∞
1.0
290
1.0
264
1.8
- Specialized
7
2.8
- Specialized
30
6.4
- Specialized
35
6.7
- Specialized
3
5.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sweat as a noun originally named the wet, salty fluid your body makes, coming from the same old English word as the verb, so sweat is that clear, salty liquid on your skin.