Meanings
present singular third person outsweats · participle present outsweating · participle past outsweated · past outsweated · alternative out-sweat
- transitiveTo sweat more than; exceed in sweating
He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me.
2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 2812 more examples
Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish.
2013, Hildred Billings, KataomoiOther production assistants ran around sweating and panicked, trying to outsweat and outpanic each other to show how very important they were.
2017, Kristan Higgins, On Second Thought
Origin
- Middle Englishoutsweten
- Englishoutsweat
From Middle English outsweten, equivalent to out- + sweat.
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outsweat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsweat
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