Sweating

Quick meaning: Sweating is a noun meaning The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

Meaning

The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

More Meanings

1. (botany) Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
2. (cooking, figurative) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.
3. present participle and gerund of sweat
4. Giving off sweat.

Example Sentences

A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.

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).

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.

Word Forms

• sweatings

Synonyms for sweating

Depending on context, synonyms include perspiration, diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sudoresis, asweat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perspiring, sweaty, wet, transpiration, sudation, perspiration.

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