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Definition: Cold Sweat |
Cold SweatNoun1. Concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cold Sweat |
| English words defined with "cold sweat": Death damp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cold sweat": Dyspnea, Paroxysmal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am Jack's cold sweat. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She dressed herself, went down to the garden, ran to the bench, and felt a cold sweat. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Was it possible he had done these things? A cold sweat broke out upon his forehead as the foul memories condensed within his brain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cold sweat | 45 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cold sweat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | angstens kolde sved. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | angstzweet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | angorŝvito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuskanhiki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | sueur froide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Angstschweiss. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρύοσ ιδρώτασ, κρύος ιδρώτας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elönti a verejték (to break into a cold sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sudore freddo d'angoscia, sudore d'angoscia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脂汗 (greasy sweat), 油汗 (greasy sweat), 冷汗 , 冷や汗 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひやあせ, れいか" (afflatus, court musician, inspiration), あぶらあせ (greasy sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldcay eatsway suor frio (death-damp). (various references) sudor frío. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: castled, coasted, coldest, coleads, declaws, lactose, located, locates, scowled, solaced, solated, talcose, waldoes. | |
-3 letters: aldose, cadets, castle, clades, clawed, cleats, closed, closet, coaled, coated, colead, costae, costal, costed, cowled, decals, declaw, deltas, desalt, dowels, eclats, lasted, locate, lowest, octads, oldest, osteal, owlets, salted, scaled, scowed, slated, slowed, solace, solate, staled, stoled, stowed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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