sweating

Giving off sweat.

Adjective

  1. Giving off sweat.
    • A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.

    Synonyms: asweat sudorific sudoriferous sweaty

Origin

From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).

Forms

more sweating most sweating

Derived

nonsweating sweating industry sweating iron

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • 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). - 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

    Synonyms: perspiration diaphoresis hidrosis sudation sudoresis

  2. Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
  3. The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

    Coordinate Terms: steaming sautéing boiling frying

Forms

sweatings

Derived

Picardy sweating sickness sweating sickness

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sweat