coldsweat

plural coldsweats

1. countableuncountableCold sweat.

   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

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   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

   A coldsweat bedewed Robert's trembling limbs, his hair raised on his head, and his senses became confused

   1825, The Amour of a Friar: Or, the Adventures of the Young Capuchin; and The Schemer, Wilton and Son, page 192

   I could barely feel the temperature given the coldsweat running down my back.

   2018, Dana Killion, The Last Lie

   I had to take a shower and change the sheets. They were drenched in coldsweat.

   2020, Guilty_Coconut, “People of Reddit who have experienced sleep paralysis, what was it like? What did you see? [Serious]”, in reddit.com