sweaten

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A form of sweat — Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of sweat

    Greaze that's ſweaten / From the Murderers Gibbet, throw / Into the Flame.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 144, column 1
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    I have toil'd, and till'd, and sweaten in the sun, / According to the curse:—must I do more?

    1821, Lord Byron, “Cain, a Mystery”, in Sardanapalus, a Tragedy; The Two Foscari, a Tragedy; Cain, a Mystery, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 416
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Chicago

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