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schwitzen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • perspiration noun Sweat, or the process of sweating.
  • stew noun A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly together in liquid.
  • sweat noun The salty liquid released through the skin, usually from heat, exercise, or stress.
  • sweating noun The process of releasing sweat through the skin, usually to cool the body.

Senses

schwitzen is used for these senses in English:

  • perspiration The action or process of perspiring.
  • stew (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  • sweating The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
  • swelter (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.

stew — full definition

  1. noun A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly together in liquid.
  2. verb To cook food slowly in liquid over low heat.
  3. verb To worry or fret anxiously about something.

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