outsweat
verbEtymology From Middle English outsweten, equivalent to out- + sweat.
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Ambitransitive, Archaic To 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:
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To sweat more than; exceed in sweating
- He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me.2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 281:
- Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish.2013, Hildred Billings, Kataomoi:
1 more example
- 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:
- Related terms
- outwork