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Collocations for sweat - noun

ADJ.

heavy | fine, 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.

QUANT.

bead, drop, trickle

VERB + SWEAT

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

SWEAT + VERB

appear, break out
His hands trembled and sweat broke out all over his body.
glisten, stand out
sweat glistening on her forehead Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
bead sth, drip/pour/run from/into/off sth, run/trickle down sth
Sweat beaded her face. | Sweat was running down his back.
soak sth

SWEAT + NOUN

gland

PREP.

in a ~
She woke up in a cold sweat.

Collocations for sweat - verb

ADV.

freely, heavily, a lot, profusely | slightly | off
He''s trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.

VERB + SWEAT

begin to | make sb
The heat was making us sweat.

PREP.

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

PHRASES

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

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