Word: sweat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz. Pronunciation: /swɛt/ 1. To emit sweat. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause to excrete moisture through skin. Labels: transitive 3. To cause to excrete moisture through skin. Labels: transitive Example: His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics. 4. To work hard. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I've been sweating over my essay all day. 5. To work hard. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard. Example: 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. 6. To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression. Labels: informal, transitive Example: to sweat a spendthrift Example: to sweat labourers 7. To worry. Labels: informal, intransitive 8. To worry about (something). Labels: informal, transitive Example: Don't sweat it! Example: to sweat the small stuff 9. To emit, in the manner of sweat. Labels: transitive Example: to sweat blood Example: With exercise she sweat ill humors out. 10. To emit moisture. Labels: intransitive Example: The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it. 11. To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation. Labels: intransitive Example: Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table. 12. To solder (a pipe joint) together. Labels: intransitive 13. To stress out, to put under pressure. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Stop sweatin' me! Example: But I'ma smoke 'em now and not next time / Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me 14. To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Sweating is a generally a quiet operation; if the food is whispering, or worse, hissing, the moisture is probably evaporating too rapidly Example: Sweat the carrots, onion, celery, leeks, and cabbage in the butter until translucent not allowing them to color in any way. 15. To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by sweating, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. 16. To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds. Labels: intransitive 17. To take a racehorse for a short exercise run. Labels: transitive Example: A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well.