outsweat

English

Alternative forms

  • out-sweat

Etymology

From Middle English outsweten, equivalent to out- + sweat.

Verb

outsweat (third-person singular simple present outsweats, present participle outsweating, simple past and past participle outsweat or outsweated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To sweat out or cause to sweat out
    • 2006, Randall VanderMey, Charm School:
      But if a goddess beds a man, hungry for the one bliss — rank, imperfect, mortal bliss — the one that outsweats your divine eternal summer, goddamit, then you're right there with your lightning bolts.
  2. (transitive) To sweat more than; exceed in sweating
    • 2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 281:
      He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me.
    • 2013, Hildred Billings, Kataomoi:
      Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish.
    • 2017, Kristan Higgins, On Second Thought:
      Other production assistants ran around sweating and panicked, trying to outsweat and outpanic each other to show how very important they were.

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