What does "asweat" mean?

In a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating.

What is a synonym for "asweat"?

Common synonyms include: sudoriferous, sudorific, sweating, sweaty.

//əˈswɛt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Adjective

1
In a sweat; covered or soaked with sweat or some liquid resembling sweat; sweating. dated, not-comparable
"[...] Death was my red son, / Who, like an harvest man asweat with toil, / Perspires all gore, dissolved in bloody dews— [...]"

"[...] Death was my red son, / Who, like an harvest man asweat with toil, / Perspires all gore, dissolved in bloody dews— [...]"

From a- (prefix meaning ‘at; in; on’, used to show a state, condition, or manner) + sweat.

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