sweating

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Sweating means when your body produces more sweat than usual, often because it's hot or you're doing some physical activity.

When people talk about sweating, they usually mean that their body is producing a lot of sweat. This can happen for many reasons - maybe someone got too close to the fire while cooking dinner, or they were playing sports outside on a really hot day. Sometimes we might even sweat just from nervousness or stress! If you're at a concert and the band starts playing a super energetic song, you might start sweating because everyone around you is moving and dancing.

How common is "sweating"?

Word sweating is considered rare in modern English.
It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.

Definitions

verb

To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To work hard.
Example: I've been sweating over my essay all day.
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
Example: to sweat a spendthrift
To worry.
To worry about (something).
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
Example: to sweat blood
To emit moisture.
Example: The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
To stress out.
Example: Stop sweatin' me!
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
To scrape the sweat from (a horse).

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noun

The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

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