sweat

Plural: sweats

Noun

salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- "sweat poured off his brow"
agitation resulting from active worry
- "he's in a sweat about exams"
condensation of moisture on a cold surface
- "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
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.
The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
Hard work; toil.
Moisture issuing from any substance.
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
The sweating sickness.
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
An extremely or excessively competitive player.

Verb

Verb Forms: sweated, sweating, sweats

To perspire; to exude moisture through the skin.
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
- "Exercise makes one sweat"
To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To cause to perspire.
To work hard.
To work hard.
To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
To worry.
To worry about (something).
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
To emit moisture.
To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
To stress out, to put under pressure.
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
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.
To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.

Examples

Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
Don't sweat it!
He began to SWEAT as the clock ticked down on his critical Scrabble move.
His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
I've been sweating over my essay all day.
Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
Stop sweatin' me!
The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.
to sweat a spendthrift
to sweat blood
to sweat labourers
to sweat the small stuff

Origin / 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, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.

Synonyms

effort, elbow grease, exertion, fret, lather, perspiration, perspire, stew, sudate, sudor, swither, travail, bleed, slave, slog, tryhard, worry

Scrabble Score: 8

sweat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sweat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sweat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

sweat: valid Words With Friends Word