English sweat en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) A disease that had outbreaks in 16th-century Tudor England, and latterly into Europe, that had the characteristic of uncontrollable continuous extreme sweating, leading to death within hours, and now thought to be caused by hantavirus.
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Hypernyms
sweats · sweating sickness · sweat
Synonyms
sweats · sudor anglicus · English sweating · English sweating sickness · the sweats
Translations (1)
la sudor anglicus (Translations)