sweat
//swɛt//
Forms
- Plural
- sweats
- present (v1)
- sweat
- past (v2)
- sweated
- past participle (v3)
- sweated
- present participle
- sweating
- 3rd person singular
- sweats
Definitions
1.Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- Wipe the sweat from your brow.
- The sheets were soaked with sweat.
2.Hard work; toil.
- Wipe the sweat from your brow.
- The sheets were soaked with sweat.
3.Moisture issuing from any substance.
- Wipe the sweat from your brow.
- The sheets were soaked with sweat.
4.The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
- Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
1.To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
2.To work hard.(informal)
- I've been sweating over my essay all day.
- There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.
- With skill-based matchmaking, he wrote, "you have to sweat 100 percent of the time." They contend their audiences want to see them pull off amazing victories, not struggle endlessly against other top players.
3.To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.(informal)
4.To emit sweat.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4252
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”).