Asweat

Quick meaning: Asweat is an adjective meaning (dated) In a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.

Meaning

(dated) In a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.

Example Sentences

Beneath them my swarthy and hardy peasants are plodding up the hill asweat and athirst.

[...] Death was my red son, / Who, like an harvest man asweat with toil, / Perspires all gore, dissolved in bloody dews— [...]

[W]hen they had given / The cool wet jar, asweat with diamond-drops / Of sparkling life, that way-worn Arab laved / The muzzle of his beast, and filled her mouth; [...]

It made me remember the old ballad where she wakes up in bed with her lover, and the sheets are damp and she says ‘wake up, wake up, the sheets are all asweat’, but when she looks it’s not sweat but blood in the bed.

Synonyms for asweat

Depending on context, synonyms include sudoriferous, sudorific, sweaty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sudorific, sweaty, sweatish, sudatory, sudorous, sudoriferous.

Related Dictionary Tools