outsweat

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verb

To sweat out or cause to sweat out

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verboutsweat (third-person singular simple present outsweats, present participle outsweating, simple past and past participle outsweat or outsweated)

present singular third person outsweats · participle present outsweating · participle past outsweated · past outsweated · alternative out-sweat

  1. ambitransitivearchaicTo sweat out or cause to sweat out

    But if a goddess beds a man, hungry for the one bliss — rank, imperfect, mortal bliss — the one that outsweats your divine eternal summer, goddamit, then you're right there with your lightning bolts.

    2006, Randall VanderMey, Charm School
  2. transitiveTo sweat more than; exceed in sweating

    He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me.

    2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 281
    2 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, Kataomoi

    Other 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

  1. Middle Englishoutsweten
  2. Englishoutsweat

From Middle English outsweten, equivalent to out- + sweat.

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APA

outsweat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsweat

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outsweat,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outsweat.

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