sweating

Pluralsweatings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The body's way of giving off salty water through the skin to help cool down.

   Like how a wet towel feels cool against your skin as it dries.

   Sweating helps the body cool down when it gets too hot.

   After the long run, sweating left her shirt completely soaked.

   Similarperspiration, diaphoresis

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2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of sweat. Use this -ing form for something happening right now.

   He is sweating after climbing all those stairs.

   The players were sweating in the summer heat.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Covered in sweat, or giving off sweat from the skin.

   The sweating runner wiped his face with a towel.

   Her sweating hands slipped off the rope.

   Similarsweaty

   Oppositedry

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4. 4
   nounfigurativelycountable or uncountable

   Cooking vegetables slowly in oil or butter to soften them without browning.

   The soup starts with a slow sweating of onions and celery.

   Proper sweating keeps the vegetables pale and tender.

   Similarsoftening

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   The sticky, slippery liquid that cocoa beans give off.

   Like the sticky juice that drips out of a cut piece of fruit.

   The sweating from the cocoa beans dripped into the trays below.

   Workers collected the sweating after the beans had sat for several days.

   Similarmucilage

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