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unsweat

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ sweat.

Verb

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unsweat (third-person singular simple present unsweats, present participle unsweating, simple past and past participle unsweated)

  1. (transitive) To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.
    • [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: [] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
      The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travel'd Spirit
    • 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, ‎Kimon Friar, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, page 738:
      The Old Man's gone berserk, lads, childish, addle-brained, he sweats, unsweats , till with blood , tears and sweat he shapes erect nude pigs and makes them stand on their hind legs , sets them to bake in sun, []
  2. (transitive) To remove solder from a joint that has been previously soldered together.
    • 1967, The Federal Reporter, page 460:
      They were to "unsweat" a joint of the old return line by heating the solder and then to install a T valve. To unsweat, appellant used a Prestolite tank which produced a flame of sufficient heat to melt the solder on the sweat units.
    • 2019, Craig Migliaccio, Refrigerant Charging and Service Procedures for Air Conditioning, page 212:
      Moisture will be released if the technician unsweats the filter drier .

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