Covered in or dripping with sweat; perspiring heavily.
From 'a-' (in a state of) plus 'sweat,' from Old English 'swæt.' This construction forms an adjective describing the active state of sweating.
Warriors asweat after battle, laborers asweat under summer sun—this old-fashioned word captures that exhausted, drenched feeling with vivid intensity.
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