Definitions for cold-sweat

cold-sweat cold sweat

Cold-Sweat is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 657 anagrams from letters in cold-sweat (-acdelostw).

Definitions for cold-sweat

noun

  1. a chill accompanied by perspiration, caused by fear, nervousness, or the like.

Origin of cold-sweat

First recorded in 1700-10

Examples for cold-sweat

There was a prickling at the base of my scalp and I was drenched with cold sweat.

I was so afraid to breathe; the cold sweat started on my forehead.

I sank upon the steps; every pore in my body was a fountain of cold sweat: "Have whom?"

Roger jumped to his feet, the cold sweat starting from his forehead.

Then he fell back on his bed, unable to speak or to move, and covered with a cold sweat.

I remember waking up 12 or 13 years ago in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

Beads of cold sweat were gathering and running down his drawn face.

Charles hesitated, while a cold sweat ran from his forehead.

When the cold sweat of the bad review dried, another feeling followed that was not at all unpleasant.

The trembling passed, and he broke out into a cold sweat of fear.

Word Value for cold-sweat
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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