- sweat
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ heavy▪ light▪ clammy▪
My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.
▪ cold▪ stale▪The room smelled of stale sweat.
▪ good▪We worked up a good sweat carrying the boxes outside.
▪ night▪Exercise can help reduce night sweats.
… OF SWEAT▪ bead, drop, trickleVERB + SWEAT▪ break into, break out in, break out into▪She broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the spider.
▪ work up▪ bring sb out in (BrE)▪ be bathed in, be covered in, be drenched in, be soaked in▪The workmen were bathed in sweat.
▪ be beaded with▪ be damp with, be wet with▪ be dripping, be dripping with▪His forehead was dripping sweat.
▪He was dripping with sweat.
▪ glisten with▪ mop, wipe▪He mopped the sweat from his brow.
SWEAT + VERB▪ appear, break out▪His hands trembled and sweat broke out all over his body.
▪ glisten, stand out▪Sweat glistened on her forehead.
▪Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
▪ drip from/off sth, pour from/off sth, run from/off sth▪Water was dripping from the branches.
▪ pour down sth, run down sth, trickle down sth▪Sweat was running down his back.
▪ soak sthSWEAT + NOUN▪ glandPREPOSITION▪ in a sweat▪She woke up in a cold sweat.
PHRASES▪ break sweat (BrE), break a sweat (AmE)▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}She beat me without even breaking (a) sweat.
verbADVERB▪ freely, heavily, a lot, profusely▪ slightly▪ away, off, out▪He's trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.
▪You can sweat out toxins in the sauna.
VERB + SWEAT▪ begin to, start to▪ make sb▪The heat was making us sweat.
PREPOSITION▪ from▪We were sweating profusely from the exertion.
▪ with▪He awoke with a pounding heart, sweating with fear.
PHRASES▪ sweat buckets, sweat bullets (AmE), sweat like a pig (all informal)▪After two hours of digging he was sweating like a pig.
Sweat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑palm
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
