Word Meaning

Meaning of sweats

- of Sweat
- To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
- Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
- To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
- To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
- To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
- To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
- To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
- The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
- The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
- Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
- The sweating sickness.
- A short run by a race horse in exercise.

Crossword clue for sweats

- Eccrine and apocrine are what type of glands?
- Lose body moisture
- Perspiration
- Perspire
- Saute gently
- See-through
- Cooks gently
- Perspires
- Sautes gently