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cold sweat

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cold sweat
n.
A reaction to nervousness, fear, pain, or shock, characterized by simultaneous perspiration and chill and cold moist skin.
cold sweat
n
(Medicine / Pathology) Informal a bodily reaction to fear or nervousness, characterized by chill and moist skin
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Noun1.cold sweat - the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear
fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state - the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
Translations
cold sweat n to be in a cold sweat (about sth) → sudare freddo (per qc)
cold sweat n to be in a cold sweat (about sth) → sudare freddo (per qc)


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My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
She stands-- she sits--she staggers--she falls--she groans--she dies --and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Cold sweat exuded from his every pore as La raised the cruel, sacrificial knife above him.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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