sweat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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cooking
food
government
lifestyle
manufacturing
military
plumbing
politics
video-games
war
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”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.
Inflected forms:
form: sweats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sweats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sweating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sweated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sweat
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sweated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sweat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sweaten
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
gloss: Hard work; toil.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
gloss: Moisture issuing from any substance.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet
 Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat,
 The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd,
 Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad
the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
gloss: A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training.
A sweat was, accordingly, a training run for a racehorse: a notice in The London Gazette in 1705 advertises a race for hunters that have not 'been kept in sweats above 12 weeks before the day of Running'.
gloss: The sweating sickness.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
[…]who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge
gloss: A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: An extremely or excessively competitive player.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.
gloss: To emit sweat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
gloss: To work hard.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I've been sweating over my essay all day.
gloss: To work hard.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: to sweat a spendthrift
to sweat labourers
"I've predicted it will last 32 years. The last overhaul we will do on it is at 24 years, but we tend to sweat the asset at Network Rail and try and save a bit of money, so I've estimated 32 years."
gloss: To worry.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To worry about (something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Don't sweat it!
to sweat the small stuff
There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
gloss: To emit, in the manner of sweat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweat blood
With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
I was sipping a third, but I had no kind of buzz on; apparently I had sweat the beer out as rapidly as I drank it.
gloss: To emit moisture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
gloss: To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
gloss: To solder (a pipe joint) together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To stress out, to put under pressure.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Stop sweatin' me!
But I'ma smoke 'em now and not next time / Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me
Over the next few days the cops half-ass questioned a couple of people, including me and Pimp, but they wasn't able to put nothing on us. They sweated Vyreen's husband pretty hard for a while, though.
gloss: To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Sweating is a generally a quiet operation; if the food is whispering, or worse, hissing, the moisture is probably evaporating too rapidly
Sweat the carrots, onion, celery, leeks, and cabbage in the butter until translucent not allowing them to color in any way.
Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and gently sweat the celery for ten minutes, taking care not to brown it
Sweat the onions and garlic in the oil, stirring occasionally, until they are completely soft (no crunch) but not caramelized.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: sudor
Related words: shvitz
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Derived words: antisweat
besweat
blood sweat
bloody sweat
break a sweat
cold sweat
corn sweat
don't sweat it
English sweat
fetid sweat
flop sweat
forswat
in a sweat
muck sweat
never-sweat
no sweat
old sweat
outsweat
Picardy sweat
sweat angel
sweatball
sweatband
sweat batten
sweat bee
sweatbox
sweat box
sweat cloth
sweat-dappled
sweatdrop
sweatee
sweatful
sweat gland
sweat hole
sweathouse
sweatish
sweatless
sweatlike
sweat lodge
sweatlord
sweatmeat
sweat of one's brow
sweat of the brow
sweatpant
sweat pants
sweatpants
sweat pore
sweatproof
sweat rash
sweat scraper
sweatshirt
sweatshop
sweatsoaked
sweat sock
sweatstained
sweatsuit
sweat trousers
sweatworking
sweaty
tiger sweat
asweat
don't sweat the small stuff
oversweat
sweat blood
sweat bricks
sweat buckets
sweat bullets
sweat equity
sweater
sweat it out
sweat like a hooker in church
sweat like a horse
sweat like a nigger
sweat like a nigger on election day
sweat like a pig
sweat like a whore in church
sweat off
sweat one's guts out
sweat out
sweat the small stuff
swot
unsweat
Translations:
lang: Aramaic
word: ܕܥܬ
roman: dəʿeṯ
lang: Catalan
word: suar
lang: Dutch
word: zwoegen
lang: Finnish
word: raataa
lang: Hungarian
word: robotol
lang: Hungarian
word: éhbérért dolgozik
lang: Macedonian
word: се поти
roman: se poti
lang: Malayalam
word: വിയർക്കുക
roman: viyaṟkkuka
lang: Polish
word: pocić się
lang: Portuguese
word: suar
lang: Russian
word: вка́лывать
roman: vkályvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: горба́титься
roman: gorbátitʹsja
lang: Russian
word: иша́чить
roman: išáčitʹ
lang: Russian
word: паха́ть
roman: paxátʹ
lang: Russian
word: манту́лить
roman: mantúlitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: sudar
lang: Tamil
word: வியர்க்க
roman: viyarkka
lang: Turkish
word: ter dökmek