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Collocations for sweat - noun

ADJECTIVE

heavy
light
clammy
My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.
cold
stale
The room smelled of stale sweat.
good
We worked up a good sweat carrying the boxes outside.
night
Exercise can help reduce night sweats.

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… OF SWEAT

bead, drop, trickle

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VERB + sweat

break into, break out in, break out into
She broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the spider.
work up
bring sb out in (BrE)
be bathed in, be covered in, be drenched in, be soaked in
The workmen were bathed in sweat.
be beaded with
be damp with, be wet with
be dripping, be dripping with
His forehead was dripping sweat.
He was dripping with sweat.
glisten with
mop, wipe
He mopped the sweat from his brow.

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sweat + VERB

appear, break out
His hands trembled and sweat broke out all over his body.
glisten, stand out
Sweat glistened on her forehead.
Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
drip from/off sth, pour from/off sth, run from/off sth
Water was dripping from the branches.
pour down sth, run down sth, trickle down sth
Sweat was running down his back.
soak sth

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sweat + NOUN

gland

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PREPOSITION

in a sweat
She woke up in a cold sweat.

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PHRASES

break sweat (BrE), break a sweat (AmE)
She beat me without even breaking (a) sweat.

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Collocations for sweat - verb

ADVERB

freely, heavily, a lot, profusely
slightly
away, off, out
He's trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.
You can sweat out toxins in the sauna.

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VERB + sweat

begin to, start to
make sb
The heat was making us sweat.

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PREPOSITION

from
We were sweating profusely from the exertion.
with
He awoke with a pounding heart, sweating with fear.

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PHRASES

sweat buckets, sweat bullets (AmE), sweat like a pig (all informal)
After two hours of digging he was sweating like a pig.

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Sweat is used with these nouns as the subject:
palm

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