COLD SWEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cold sweat mean? 

• COLD SWEAT (noun)
  The noun COLD SWEAT has 1 sense:

1. the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear

  Familiarity information: COLD SWEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLD SWEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cold sweat" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Holonyms ("cold sweat" is a part of...):

fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

 Context examples 

Those hectic spots were more pronounced, the eyes shone more brightly out of darker hollows, and a cold sweat glimmered upon his brow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The episodes may be accompanied by coughing, a feeling of suffocation, a cold sweat, and tachycardia.

(Dyspnea Paroxysmal Nocturnal, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A cold sweat broke out over my body, and my heart turned sick at the misery of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A cold sweat stood on her forehead, the manuscript fell from her hand, and groping her way to the bed, she jumped hastily in, and sought some suspension of agony by creeping far underneath the clothes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)