(v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
(v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
(v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
(v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
(v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
(v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
(v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
(v. i.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
(v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
(v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
(v. i.) The sweating sickness.
(v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(2) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
(3) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(4) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
(5) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(6) Further vegetative signs are impotence and a loss of thermoregulatoric sweat.
(7) These were followed by malignant melanomas (12 cases), carcinomas of the parotid gland (6 cases), oropharyngeal region (3 cases), adrenal medulla (2 cases) and stomach, liver, breast and cutaneous sweat gland (one case each).
(8) Pralidoxime was shown to decrease whole body sweating, by a mechanism as yet unexplained.
(9) She slept in the hall, covered in a duvet, and by the time her cleaner arrived the next day, she was sweating, vomiting repeatedly and shaking.
(10) No or only a slight increase in sweating activity was observed following the acclimation procedures with face fanning, whereas similar procedures without face fanning had resulted in substantial enhancement of sweating activity in most of the cases, which had been attributed mainly to adaptive changes in central sudomotor activity (as indicated by a shift of the regression line relating Fsw to Tb).
(11) Parliament embarks on two years of legislative Brexit blood, sweat and tears.
(12) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
(13) She also complained of occasional night sweats, a 6-pound weight loss, vaginal discharge, and a low-grade fever for 6 weeks prior to admission.
(14) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
(15) Primary mucinous carcinoma is a rare sweat-gland neoplasm of the skin with a tendency to grow slowly.
(16) In 13 postorchidectomy patients who reported hot flushes we recorded cutaneous blood-flow and sweating by use of a laser-Doppler flowmeter and an evaporimeter.
(17) All animals broke out in a sweat shortly after iv injection, but basal body temperature was not affected.
(18) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
(19) The classic symptoms and signs of tuberculosis were noted in a significantly higher proportion of the younger group: fever (62 percent versus 31 percent), weight loss (76 percent versus 34 percent), night sweats (48 percent versus 6 percent), sputum production (76 percent versus 48 percent), and hemoptysis (40 percent versus 17 percent) (p less than 0.05).
(20) Papillary hidradenoma of the vulva is a rare, benign neoplasm arising from apocrine sweat glands of the skin.
Sweaty
Definition:
(superl.) Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
(superl.) Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
(1) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
(2) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
(3) In the celebrity groupie category, Rihanna’s tweets for her “German boyz” were upstaged by Angela Merkel’s sweaty embrace of the national team.
(4) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
(5) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
(6) All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is a sweaty ménage à quatre among the bow rosin and scoresheets.
(7) We want to have a powered bike so you don’t get hot and sweaty.
(8) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
(9) "I'm particularly proud as a sports presenter to be nominated alongside an artists and an arts broadcaster because I think it's easy to think of sports being just about sweaty jockstraps and balls," she said.
(10) Unfortunately, our salon is opposite a Bikram yoga studio so you get the chancers who come straight from class and expect me to wax them sweaty.
(11) He’s one of the UK’s most dedicated club DJs, capable of holding a room in sweaty excelsis for eight hours without pause.
(12) Because the special effects were filled in later, we had these large, sweaty prop guys in braces dancing about with cut-out horses and penguins to show us what was going on.
(13) He has captured the elements of nascent rock scenes in New York, London and California: the sweaty fans, spilt drinks and crumbling venues.
(14) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(15) The Conservative former cabinet minister David Mellor may be boycotted as a passenger by London blacks cabs after he was secretly recorded calling his driver a “smart-arsed little git” and a “sweaty, stupid little shit”.
(16) By the same token, a football cup final is just a bunch of overpaid sweaty men chasing around a field after a bolus of stitched leather.
(17) When you are all sweaty and grimy in the heat of the city, this is the most delicious and refreshing thing ever – and super cheap.
(18) As to my own holidays, after getting married last June, my new husband and I hopped on a jet to Florence for some extremely sweaty sightseeing, followed by a more relaxing stop in rural Tuscany for walks round perfect medieval towns, like lovely Volpaia, red-wine hangovers and over-enthusiastic carb-loading.
(19) Depp appeared to respond to Joyce in a black joke he told at this year’s Venice film festival: “I killed my dogs and ate them, under direct orders of some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.
(20) He was there for the drinking sessions , the ups-and-downs of Farage’s mood swings and even accompanied him on a series of steam-room trips in an attempt to stop the Ukip leader looking so sweaty on television.