asweat
/əˈswɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[...] Death was my red son, / Who, like an harvest man asweat with toil, / Perspires all gore, dissolved in bloody dews— [...]"
- "[T]he dam, beholding nigh, can bring her offspring dear / No needful help, for her own limbs are bound by trembling fear, / And with a sudden dread she starts, and flies with speed increased, / Through bush and wild wood all asweat, before that strong-jawed beast; [...]"
- "[T]he sheepish herds, / That flock around each new teacher, all asweat / With running and jostling for the nearest place, / To stare and wonder what he means and cry / "Oh, the rare teacher!" till the next one comes, [...]"
- "[W]hen they had given / The cool wet jar, asweat with diamond-drops / Of sparkling life, that way-worn Arab laved / The muzzle of his beast, and filled her mouth; [...]"
- "Beneath them my swarthy and hardy peasants are plodding up the hill asweat and athirst."
- "I threw a cloak over him for a net and struck, struck, struck, / Blindly, in the steam of the bath; he bellowed, netted, / And bubbled in the water; / All the stone vault asweat with steam bellowed; / And I undid the net and the beast was dead, and the broad vessel / Stank with his blood."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈswɛt/
- British English: /əˈswɛt/