[
US
/ˈswɛtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /swˈɛtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /swˈɛtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
perspiration is a homeostatic process
How To Use sweating In A Sentence
- For the stock, start by sweating all the vegetables and herbs in a little extra-virgin olive oil, seasoning with salt at the start to help them sweat without colouring.
- Sweating and red-faced, he'd stood in the middle of the hall, the tea slopping over the marble in a red tide and the newspaper rapidly disintegrating in the currents.
- Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
- Growling and sweating the ursine fellow untied the knot, picking at it with clumsy claws, then reeled her down fast. A TIME OF WAR
- Ten years ago, officials from the Western Isles Council were sweating, hoping, praying, that the BCCI would somehow be refloated; that they would go back to work on Monday with their finances restored.
- He was sweating really badly so we just thought it was flu. Times, Sunday Times
- Wear clothing in layers so you can add or subtract items to prevent chills or sweating.
- He may have signed off on the idea of creating a youth brigade, and put a gold star in the dossier of the sweating toady who proposed the idea.
- She is not the woman for whose be-dazzlement I must advertise the value of my goods by sweating sonnets to her, or shivering serenades at her, or perpetuating follies for her. The Kempton-Wace Letters
- It is easier to help when the sweating affects specific areas, such as your armpits or groin. The Sun