outsweat
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English outsweten, equivalent to out- + sweat.
Verb
[edit]outsweat (third-person singular simple present outsweats, present participle outsweating, simple past and past participle outsweat or outsweated)
- (ambitransitive, 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.
- (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.