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asweat

/əˈswɛt/

asweat adjective: in a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.

Adjective

asweat (not comparable)

  1. (dated) In a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.
    • [...] Death was my red son, / Who, like an harvest man asweat with toil, / Perspires all gore, dissolved in bloody dews— [...]1834, John A[braham] Heraud, “Book the Third”, in The Judgement of the Flood, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, section II, page 60, lines 333–335
    • [T]he dam, beholding nigh, can bring her offspring dear / No needful help, for her own limbs are bound by trembling fear, / And with a sudden dread she starts, and flies with speed increased, / Through bush and wild wood all asweat, before that strong-jawed beast; [...]1866, “Book XI”, in John Stuart Blackie, transl., Homer and the Iliad, volumes II (The Iliad in English Verse, Books I.–XII.), Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 344

Examples of asweat in a sentence

  • [W]hen they had given / The cool wet jar, asweat with diamond-drops / Of sparkling life, that way-worn Arab laved / The muzzle of his beast, and filled her mouth; [...]1883, chapter 15, in Edwin Arnold, transl., Pearls of the Faith: Or Islam’s Rosary: Being the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah...
  • Beneath them my swarthy and hardy peasants are plodding up the hill asweat and athirst.1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “The Kaaba of Solitude”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October...

Synonyms of asweat

Origin of asweat

From a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’, used to show a state, condition, or manner) + sweat.

Words that rhyme with asweat

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Questions about asweat

What does asweat mean?
Asweat means in a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.
How do you use asweat in a sentence?
[W]hen they had given / The cool wet jar, asweat with diamond-drops / Of sparkling life, that way-worn Arab laved / The muzzle of his beast, and filled her mouth; [...]
What part of speech is asweat?
Asweat is an adjective.
How do you pronounce asweat?
Asweat is pronounced /əˈswɛt/ (UK).

Words near asweat in the dictionary

  1. Aswarby
  2. Aswarby and Swarby
  3. aswarm
  4. asway
  5. Aswayuja
  6. asweat
  7. asweddumisation
  8. asweddumization
  9. asweddumize
  10. asweddumized
  11. asweddumizes

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