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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered with or smelling of sweat.
  • adjective Causing sweat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Moist or stained with sweat: as, a sweaty skin.
  • Consisting of sweat.
  • Causing sweat; laborious; toilsome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Moist with sweat
  • adjective Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
  • adjective Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective covered in sweat
  • adjective having a tendency to sweat
  • adjective likely to cause one to sweat

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