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/swɛt/ · noun
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation..
Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat, The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd, Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad
the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well.
There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training.
A sweat was, accordingly, a training run for a racehorse: a notice in The London Gazette in 1705 advertises a race for hunters that have not 'been kept in sweats above 12 weeks before the day of Running'.
When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
[…]who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge
Use sweat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sweat means Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation..
Common synonyms include sudor, perspiration, tryhard, perspire.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
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