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Synonyms for sweating

Grammar : Adj
Spell : swet
Phonetic Transcription : swɛt

Top 10 synonyms for sweating
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Définition of sweating

Origin :
  • Old English swætan "perspire, work hard," from the source of sweat (n.). Meaning "to be worried, vexed" is recorded from c.1400. Related: Sweated; sweating. Colloquial no sweat "no problem" attested from 1963.
  • adj sweaty
Example sentences :
  • Wit, lad, is a catching thing, like the itch or the sweating sickness.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The stranger dies, while the Indian, sweating and gasping for breath, survives.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • We be'n sweating this other man, Slattery, but we can't break him down.
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • The sweating bodies of the fighters glistened in the roasting sunshine.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • The crowd swayed against the ropes, and there was laughter and sweating and squinting.
  • Extract from : « Celebrity » by James McKimmey
  • He was breathing hard and sweating at every pore, but still grim and defiant.
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He looked as though he had come off sweating from before a furnace.
  • Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
  • My nostrils were filled with the steam from his sweating skin.
  • Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
  • The light showed the pale, sweating face trembling with fear.
  • Extract from : « The Whispering Spheres » by Russell Robert Winterbotham
  • But Froben's press will be sweating over our studies none the less.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
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