What is another word for sweating?

Pronunciation: [swˈɛtɪŋ] (IPA)

Sweating is a natural process where the body releases perspiration from sweat glands to regulate body temperature. However, there are many synonyms that can describe sweating in different contexts. Words like perspiring, perspiration, sweating profusely, sweating buckets, perspiring heavily, sweating bullets, beads of sweat, and drips of perspiration can be used as alternatives to the word sweating. Additionally, if you want to describe someone who is sweating because of fear or nervousness, words like clammy, moist, sweaty-palmed or sweating nervously can be used. No matter which word you choose to describe sweating, it is an essential bodily function that helps keep us healthy and balanced.

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What are the hypernyms for Sweating?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    perspiration, perspiring, sweating profusely, sweating copiously, sweating excessively, sweating heavily.

Usage examples for Sweating

Inside, the men were sweating.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
He had stood trembling and sweating with them when heavy places in the road were past, the veins knotted in his swarthy forehead, the bare column of his throat gasping for the mountain air.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
It was a mercy and a miracle that the drag was not upset, for he scarcely knew where or how he was driving, and it was more by instinct and habit that he brought the team safe and sound, but sweating tremendously, before the house in Park Lane.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice

Famous quotes with Sweating

  • Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
    Andre Agassi
  • The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.
    Paul Ince
  • I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
    Daniel Johns
  • I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
    Michael Jordan
  • Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren't really that big a deal. We focus on little problems and blow them out of proportion.So many people spend so much of their life energy "sweating the small stuff" that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.
    Richard Carlson

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