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sweatings

sweatings is the plural of sweating.

Meaning of sweating

Noun

sweating (countable and uncountable, plural sweatings)

  1. The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
    • In its favour may be urged, I. That in healthy persons, in every case of increased action of the heart and arteries, a sweating takes place, and is, seemingly, the means of preventing the bad effects of such increased action.1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
  3. (figuratively) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

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Questions about sweatings

What is sweatings the plural of?
Sweatings is the plural of sweating.

Words near sweatings in the dictionary

  1. sweating one's guts out
  2. sweating out
  3. sweating sickness
  4. sweating the small stuff
  5. sweatingly
  6. sweatings
  7. sweatish
  8. sweatless
  9. sweatlessness
  10. sweatlike
  11. sweatlodge

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