Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

outsweat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: outsweat
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To sweat out or cause to sweat out

Archaic

verb

To sweat more than; exceed in sweating

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me."
"Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish."
"Other production assistants ran around sweating and panicked, trying to outsweat and outpanic each other to show how very important they were."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: outsweten

Usage

Inflected Forms

outsweats (present, singular) outsweating (participle, present) outsweated (participle, past) outsweated (past) out-sweat (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

outwork

Questions

What does outsweat mean?: To sweat out or cause to sweat out
Where does outsweat come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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