sweat
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
Other meanings
The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
“Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.”
Hard work; toil.
A kind of
- secretion
Word history
From Old English "swāt".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sweat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.