Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Sweat
Sweat verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The water/sweat effects introduced in Dead or Alive 5 allow characters' skin and/or underwear (and bandages and blood, in Bayman's case) to be visible through their clothes when they get wet.
Source: Sexy Soaked Shirt - Artistic License - Biology: Dragons are reptilian, but they have hair, they sweat, and they have boobs (but that's handwaved as hypertrophied pectoral muscles-which are still not strong enough to allow a humanoid to fly, but that's another trope).
Source: Webcomic / Draconia Chronicles -
Took a Level in Badass: By the end of the game, the previously wimpy Desmond has absorbed enough knowledge from the Animus to allow him to mow down an army of Templar soldiers without breaking a sweat.
Source: Video Game / Assassin's Creed II
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