I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ heavy
▪ light
▪ clammy
▪
My shirt stuck to the clammy ~ on my back.
▪ cold
▪ stale
▪
The room smelled of stale ~.
▪ good
▪
We worked up a good ~ carrying the boxes outside.
▪ night
▪
Exercise can help reduce night ~s.
… OF SWEAT
▪ bead , drop , trickle
VERB + SWEAT
▪ break into , break out in , break out into
▪
She broke out in a cold ~ when she saw the spider.
▪ work up
▪ bring sb out in ( BrE )
▪ be bathed in , be covered in , be drenched in , be soaked in
▪
The workmen were bathed in ~.
▪ be beaded with
▪ be damp with , be wet with
▪ be dripping , be dripping with
▪
His forehead was dripping ~.
▪
He was dripping with ~.
▪ glisten with
▪ mop , wipe
▪
He mopped the ~ from his brow.
SWEAT + VERB
▪ appear , break out
▪
His hands trembled and ~ broke out all over his body.
▪ glisten , stand out
▪
Sweat glistened on her forehead.
▪
Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
▪ drip from/off sth , pour from/off sth , run from/off sth
▪
Water was dripping from the branches.
▪ pour down sth , run down sth , trickle down sth
▪
Sweat was running down his back.
▪ soak sth
SWEAT + NOUN
▪ gland
PREPOSITION
▪ in a ~
▪
She woke up in a cold ~.
PHRASES
▪ break ~ ( BrE ), break a ~ ( AmE )
▪
She beat me without even breaking (a) ~.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ freely , heavily , a lot , profusely
▪ slightly
▪ away , off , out
▪
He's trying to ~ off a few pounds in the gym.
▪
You can ~ out toxins in the sauna.
VERB + SWEAT
▪ begin to , start to
▪ make sb
▪
The heat was making us ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪
We were ~ing profusely from the exertion.
▪ with
▪
He awoke with a pounding heart, ~ing with fear.
PHRASES
▪ ~ buckets , ~ bullets ( AmE ), ~ like a pig ( all informal )
▪
After two hours of digging he was ~ing like a pig.
Sweat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ palm