unsweat

present singular third person unsweats · participle present unsweating · participle past unsweated · past unsweated

1. transitiveTo relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.

   The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travel'd Spirit

   [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC

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   The Old Man's gone berserk, lads, childish, addle-brained, he sweats, unsweats , till with blood , tears and sweat he shapes erect nude pigs and makes them stand on their hind legs , sets them to bake in sun, […]

   1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, Kimon Friar, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, page 738

2. transitiveTo remove solder from a joint that has been previously soldered together.

   Moisture will be released if the technician unsweats the filter drier .

   2019, Craig Migliaccio, Refrigerant Charging and Service Procedures for Air Conditioning, page 212

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   They were to "unsweat" a joint of the old return line by heating the solder and then to install a T valve. To unsweat, appellant used a Prestolite tank which produced a flame of sufficient heat to melt the solder on the sweat units.

   1967, The Federal Reporter, page 460