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besweat

besweat adjective: covered with sweat.

Adjective

besweat (comparative more besweat, superlative most besweat)

  1. (archaic) Covered with sweat.
    • Besweat with blood, he was the bane
      Of three bold warriors keen […]1928, Margaret Schlauch, Medieval Narrative, page 68

Forms of besweat

comparativemore besweat
superlativemost besweat

Origin of besweat

From Middle English beswette, be-swet, bi-swæt, past participle of Middle English bisweten, besweten (“to sweat all over, cover with sweat”), from Old English beswǣtan (“to sweat over, toil”), equivalent to be- + sweat.

Questions about besweat

What does besweat mean?
Besweat means covered with sweat.
What part of speech is besweat?
Besweat is an adjective.

Words near besweat in the dictionary

  1. beswathe
  2. beswathing
  3. beswear
  4. beswearing
  5. beswears
  6. besweat
  7. besweatered
  8. besweeten
  9. Beswick
  10. Beswicks
  11. beswinge

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