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sweating 音标拼音: [sw'ɛtɪŋ] sweating n 1: the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; " perspiration is a homeostatic process" [ synonym: { perspiration}, { sweating}, { diaphoresis}, { sudation}, { hidrosis}] Sweat \ Sweat\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Sweat} or { Sweated} ( Obs. { Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. { Sweating}.] [ OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. sw[= a] t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw[= e] t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[= e] da sweat, svid to sweat. [ root] 178. Cf. { Exude}, { Sudary}, { Sudorific}.] 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. [ 1913 Webster] He ' d have the poets sweat. -- Waller. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap. [ 1913 Webster]
Sweating \ Sweat" ing\, a. & n. from { Sweat}, v. [ 1913 Webster] { Sweating bath}, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. { Sweating house}, a house for sweating persons in sickness. { Sweating iron}, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. { Sweating room}. ( a) A room for sweating persons. ( b) ( Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. { Sweating sickness} ( Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " sweating": ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, condensation, diaphoretic, distillation, drenched with sweat, dribble, drip, dripping, drop, drudging, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, laboring, leaching, like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, overheated, overwarm, parching, pegging, percolation, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot, plodding, plugging, red- hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seepage, seeping, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, slaving, slogging, smoking hot, spurtle, sticky, straining, striving, struggling, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, toiling, torrid, trickle, tricklet, wet with sweat, white- hot, wilted, working
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