sweat
/swet/ v [I] (past tense sweat or sweated, present participle sweated) (fml perspire)Definition
› to excrete a salty, colorless liquid through the skin, esp. when you are hot or frightened: He was sweating profusely. › If something sweats, it has drops of liquid on the outside: The soda cans sweat in this humidity. › You may say you sweat if you feel worried: We have to sweat about money because we don’t have much of it.
(Definition of sweat v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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