coldsweat
coldsweat noun: cold sweat.
Noun
coldsweat (countable and uncountable, plural coldsweats)
- Cold sweat.
- A coldsweat burst out upon Albert's forehead, on hearing these incredible details.1845 November 15, The Harbinger, Burgess, Stringer, and Company, page 359
- You feel like you could eat anything not nailed down, you shake (which I do anyway), break out in a coldsweat and feel crappy and exhausted.2010, Taryn Simpson, ELLIPSIS: A Collection of Essays and Short Stories, page 85
Examples of coldsweat in a sentence
- A coldsweat bedewed Robert's trembling limbs, his hair raised on his head, and his senses became confused1825, The Amour of a Friar: Or, the Adventures of the Young Capuchin; and The Schemer, Wilton and Son, page 192:
- And then I realize, in coldsweat that she won't she can't know to notice.2010, Scott Symons, Combat Journal for Place D'Armes: A Personal Narrative, Dundurn Press:
- I could barely feel the temperature given the coldsweat running down my back.2018, Dana Killion, The Last Lie:
Forms of coldsweat
| plural | coldsweats |
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Origin of coldsweat
From cold + sweat.
Questions about coldsweat
- What does coldsweat mean?
- Coldsweat means cold sweat.
- How do you use coldsweat in a sentence?
- A coldsweat bedewed Robert's trembling limbs, his hair raised on his head, and his senses became confused
- What part of speech is coldsweat?
- Coldsweat is a noun.
- What is the plural of coldsweat?
- The plural of coldsweat is coldsweats.
Words near coldsweat in the dictionary
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