sweat

The salty liquid that comes from your skin when you are hot, active, or nervous.

• Sweat ran down his face.
• She wiped the sweat from her forehead.
• My shirt was wet with sweat after the race.

Similar words: perspiration

Common phrases: covered in sweat, drops of sweat, beads of sweat, sweat on something

A state in which your skin is producing liquid, often because you are hot or afraid.

• He woke in a cold sweat.
• The climb brought her out in a sweat.
• Thinking about the exam put me in a nervous sweat.

How to use it: in a sweat (She arrived in a sweat after running.); break out in a sweat (He broke out in a sweat when he heard the news.)

Common phrases: cold sweat, nervous sweat

To produce salty liquid through your skin because you are hot, active, or nervous.

• I sweat when I run.
• We sweated in the crowded room.
• Are you sweating because you feel nervous?

Similar words: perspire

Common phrases: sweat heavily, sweat a lot, sweat profusely, sweat during exercise

To worry or feel nervous about something.

• Don’t sweat the small stuff.
• She sweated over the decision all weekend.
• Why sweat about a problem we can easily fix?

How to use it: sweat over something (He sweated over the final question.); sweat about something (There is no need to sweat about the result.)

Similar words: worry, fret

Common phrases: sweat over something, sweat the details