SWEAT

effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat

(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work; “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”

perspiration, sweat, sudor

(noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; “sweat poured off his brow”

sweat

(noun) condensation of moisture on a cold surface; “the cold glasses were streaked with sweat”

fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither

(noun) agitation resulting from active worry; “don’t get in a stew”; “he’s in a sweat about exams”

sweat, sudate, perspire

(verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; “Exercise makes one sweat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)

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.

Synonym: perspiration

The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.

(British, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).

(historical) The sweating sickness.

Moisture issuing from any substance.

A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.

(uncountable) Hard work; toil.

Synonyms

• sudor

Etymology 2

Verb

sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past and past participle sweat or sweated)

(intransitive) To emit sweat.

Synonym: perspire

(transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.

To cause to perspire.

(intransitive, informal) To work hard.

Synonyms: slave, slog

(transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.

(intransitive, informal) To worry.

Synonyms: fret, worry

(transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something). [from 20th c.]

(transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.

(intransitive) To emit moisture.

(intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.

(transitive, slang) To stress out.

(transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

(transitive, archaic) 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.

(intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.

(transitive) To scrape the sweat from (a horse).

Anagrams

• Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas

Proper noun

Sweat (plural Sweats)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sweat is the 3856^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9194 individuals. Sweat is most common among White (74.69%) and Black/African American (18.85%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas

Source: Wiktionary

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Sweat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat (); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] Etym: [OE. sweten, AS. swætan, fr. swat, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. sveda sweat, svid to sweat. *178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]

1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak.

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

Sweat, v. t.

1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. It made her not a drop for sweat. Chaucer. With exercise she sweat ill humors out. Dryden.

3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.] To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. 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. R. Cobden.

Sweat, n. Etym: [Cf. OE. swot, AS. swat. See Sweat, v. i.]

1. (Physiol.)

Definition: The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.

2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. Shak.

3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer.

4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] Holinshed.

5. (Man.)

Definition: A short run by a race horse in exercise. Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined.

– Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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