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outsweat en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (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:
2. (transitive) To sweat more than; exceed in sweating
   • 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:
   • Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish. 2013, Hildred Billings, Kataomoi:
   • He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me. 2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 281:

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