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Sweats   /swɛts/   Listen
Sweats

noun
1.
Garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt.  Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit.



Sweat

noun
1.
Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands.  Synonyms: perspiration, sudor.
2.
Agitation resulting from active worry.  Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, swither.  "He's in a sweat about exams"
3.
Condensation of moisture on a cold surface.
4.
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work.  Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail.  "They managed only with great exertion"
verb
(past & past part. sweat or sweated, obs. swat; pres. part. sweating)
1.
Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.  Synonyms: perspire, sudate.



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"Sweats" Quotes from Famous Books



... consequence is, that at the various points of attachment the skin is improperly cured (often with the—worse than—useless arsenic), and if they escape the inevitable knocking about they receive in travelling, and get to England in fair condition, the hair, when the skin is relaxed, sweats off, particularly at the very places it should not, around the eyes, lips, nose, and ears, and the labour of, perhaps, years of anxious collecting and ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... consent, To humour what his Brutish Thoughts invent; No wonder then, if with his poisonous Breath, He strives to Blacken the Brightest thing on Earth: Woman! by Heaven her very Name's a charm, And will my Verse against all Criticks Arm; She Comforts Man in all his Sweats and Toils, And richly pays his Pains, with Love and Smiles. 'Tis Woman makes the ravish'd Poet write; 'Tis lovly Woman makes the Souldier Fight: Should that soft Sex refuse the World to bless, 'Twould soon be turn'd ...
— The Pleasures of a Single Life, or, The Miseries Of Matrimony • Anonymous

... heads of three children, for a disease of the scalp, an ointment prepared with the powder of tobacco and butter; soon after, they experienced dizziness, violent vomitings and faintings, accompanied with profuse sweats." [Orfila.] ...
— An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health • R. D. Mussey

... pipe in the county—so that the commodore lives very happy in his own manner; though he be sometimes thrown into perilous passions and quandaries, by the application of his poor kinsmen, whom he can't abide, because as how some of them were the first occasion of his going to sea. Then he sweats with agony at the sight of an attorney, just, for all the world, as some people have an antipathy to a cat: for it seems he was once at law, for striking one of his officers, and cast in a swinging sum. He is, moreover, exceedingly afflicted with goblins that disturb his rest, ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... main points—getting labor to see how a mahogany desk sweats—getting the mahogany desk to put itself in the place of a Cog, know how a Cog feels and what makes a Cog work—are points which are going to be made successfully and quickly in proportion as they are taken up in the right spirit and with a method—a practical ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee


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