sweating

IPA: swˈɛtɪŋ

The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
(botany) Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
(cooking) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

Examples of "sweating" in Sentences

Fine, I think, and sit down, still sweating from the half mile jog.
We shared the waiting room with one other — a solitary figure who was sitting on the sofa, trying to collect herself and sweating from the heat.
But now a different kind of sweating is taking place behind heavy dark wooden doors and under the bright lights of a downtown Los Angeles grand jury room.
He had just finished dressing and was red-faced, breathless, and sweating from the efforts, when the pretty girl came in to take Addie back to her own room.
However, if the sweating is so bad that it is affecting your quality of life, and medication doesn't help, surgery to sever the appropriate nerves might be considered.
The most common cause of such excessive sweating is overactivity of the nerves in the autonomic nervous system which control a host of glandular secretions – technically, the cholinergic nerves.