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/ˈswɛtɪŋ/ · noun
The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals..
In its favour may be urged, I. That in healthy persons, in every case of increased action of the heart and arteries, a sweating takes place, and is, seemingly, the means of preventing the bad effects of such increased action.
In this early stage there is generally a tendency to constipation of the bowels, and in the intervals between the sweatings the urine remains clear, though not abundant. In the second degree, the emaciation is more noticeable.
Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).
A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.
Use sweating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sweating means The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals..
Common synonyms include perspiration, diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In its favour may be urged, I. That in healthy persons, in every case of increased action of the heart and arteries, a sweating takes place, and is, seemingly, the means of preventing the bad effects of such increased action.
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