COLD SWEAT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of cold sweat in English

(Definition of cold sweat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of cold sweat

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Carr felt chest pains and went outside for some fresh air, but broke into a cold sweat and had to sit down.
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Has she ever woken up at 5 o'clock in the morning in a cold sweat, worried about where the next order will come from?
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We need not get into a cold sweat about this question, for there is nothing revolutionary about pipelines.
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He wakes in the night in a cold sweat and puts something on paper that looks silly in the morning.
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He then wakes up in a cold sweat to a woman climbing in his window.
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Gradually he grew worse: coughing, low fever, cold sweat at night, poor appetite, wasted appearance.
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The poet wakes up in a cold sweat and decides to take action.
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It is used upon collapse with cold sweat, cold limbs, diarrhea with fluid stool containing undigested food, and scarcely perceptible pulse.
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If the poison is not evacuated, cold sweat and vertigo appears.
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Cold sweat covered his forehead.
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Nausea may be defined as an unpleasant sensation of the need to vomit, which is often accompanied by symptoms such as skin pallor, cold sweat, salivation, and tachycardia.
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I break into a cold sweat.
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More general effects include cold sweats, fainting, headache, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, confusion, dizziness and risk of accidental injury.
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He then detailed his painful withdrawal from the drug, which included side effects of aching, cold sweats, shaking, and vomiting.
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Translations of cold sweat

in Chinese (Traditional)
冷汗…
in Chinese (Simplified)
冷汗…
in Spanish
sudor frío…
in Portuguese
suor frio…
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