outsweat

English

Alternative forms

• out-sweat

Etymology

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

Verb

outsweat (third-person singular simple present outsweats, present participle outsweating, simple past and past participle outsweat or outsweated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To sweat out or cause to sweat out
   • 2006, Randall VanderMey, Charm School:

     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.

2. (transitive) To sweat more than; exceed in sweating
   • 2008, Josh Barkan, Blind Speed, page 281:

     He'll try to use his yoga powers to outsweat me.

   • 2013, Hildred Billings, Kataomoi:

     Julycontinued its solar torment that Monday, with temperatures over thirty degrees Celsius and humidity liable to out-sweat a fish.

   • 2017, Kristan Higgins, On Second Thought:

     Other production assistants ran around sweating and panicked, trying to outsweat and outpanic each other to show how very important they were.

See also

• outwork

Anagrams

• sweat out