Sweat Definition

swĕt
sweated, sweating, sweats
verb
sweated, sweating, sweats
To give forth a characteristic salty moisture through the pores of the skin; perspire.
Webster's New World
To give forth moisture in droplets on its surface, as a ripening cheese does.
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To collect and condense water in droplets on its surface, as a glass of ice water does in a warm room.
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To release moisture, as hay in the swath.
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To cause to give forth moisture; esp., to ferment.
To sweat tobacco leaves.
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noun
sweats
The clear, alkaline, salty liquid given forth in drops through the pores of the skin; perspiration.
Webster's New World
Moisture given forth or collected in droplets on the surface of something.
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An artificially induced sweating.
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The act or condition of sweating or being sweated.
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Strenuous labor or exertion.
It took a lot of sweat to move the piano.
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idiom
no sweat
  • Easily done or handled.
  • Used to acknowledge an expression of gratitude.
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sweat blood
  • To work diligently or strenuously.
  • To worry intensely.
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sweat bullets
  • To sweat profusely.
  • To worry intensely.
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sweat of (one's) brow
  • Hard work:

    landscaped the yard by the sweat of my brow.

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no sweat
  • no trouble or difficulty at all; easily done
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Other Word Forms of Sweat

Noun

Singular:
sweat
Plural:
sweats

Origin of Sweat

  • From Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat"), *sweyd-. Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), French sueur, Persian خوی (xway), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Latvian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, and Albanian djersë.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old English swætan, from the noun swāt. Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English sweten from Old English swǣtan sweid- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sweat Sentence Examples

  • Sweat and tears ran down her face.

  • He smelled of sweat and blood.

  • The four of us were put to shame in jeans and sweat shirts.

  • A cold sweat broke out on her forehead and she mopped it away with her forearm.

  • His body was on fire again, and sweat trickled down his face.

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