Sweat

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English

Noun

Sweat (uncountable)
  1. (physiology) 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.
  2. (UK, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
  3. (historical) The sweating sickness.
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 131:
      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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

terms derived from sweat (noun)

Verb

Sweat (third-person singular simple present Sweats, present participle Sweating, simple past and past participle Sweated)

  1. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
    • 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
      There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
  5. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
    to sweat blood.
  6. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
  7. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
    Stop sweatin' me!

Synonyms

Derived terms

terms derived from sweat (verb)

Adjectives for Sweat

bitter; body; profuse; chilly; bloody; cold; tremendous; copious; continual; peasant; goblin.

Verbs for Sweat

check—; glisten with—; induce—; secrete —; —beads; —chills; —develops; —diffuses; —diminishes; —drenches; drips; —droops; —glistens; —pours off; —rolls — stains ; —starts; —wilts.

Adverbs for Sweat

copiously; prodigiously; profusely; tremendously; coldly; abnormally,

Thesaurus

BO, abide, ado, agitation, agonize, aim, all-overs, anguish, anxiety, await, bake, be determined, be in heat, beaded brow, beads of sweat, befuddlement, bewilderment, bide, blaze, bleed, bloom, body odor, boil, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, broil, burden, burn, burn to, burst, bustle, busy, chafe, chafing, chaos, chills of fear, choke, chyle, cloud, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, colostrum, combust, commotion, condense, confusion, cook, creeps, daze, diaphoresis, dirty work, discharge, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distill, disturbance, dither, dithers, do double duty, donkeywork, dribble, drip, dripple, drive, drop, drudge, drudgery, eagerness, elucubrate, embarrassment, employment, endeavor, excitement, exudate, exudation, exude, fag, fatigue, fear and trembling, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fighter, fighting man, filter, fit, flame, flame up, flap, flare, flare up, flicker, flummox, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fog, frenzy, fret, fretfulness, fretting, fry, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, fussiness, gasp, get excited, gleet, glow, goose bumps, gooseflesh, grind, gurgle, handiwork, handwork, hard work, hardly wait, haste, hasten, haze, heartquake, heebie-jeebies, hit the ball, honest sweat, horripilation, hubbub, hullabaloo, humor, hustle, ichor, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incandesce, industry, inquietude, itch to, jimjams, jitters, jumble, jump the gun, jumps, keep busy, labor, laboriousness, lachryma, lactation, lather, leach, leukorrhea, lick, lick of work, lixiviate, lucubrate, lymph, maelstrom, man-at-arms, manual labor, mark time, matter, maze, mess, milk, mist, moil, mucor, mucus, muddle, muddlement, mulct, nervousness, ooze, oppress, overdrive, overtask, overtax, overwork, palpitation, pant, parch, peccant humor, percolate, perplexity, perspiration, perspiration odor, perspire, perturbation, phlegm, pother, pour it on, pucker, purulence, pus, quaking, quiver of terror, quivers, radiate heat, rat race, resolve, restiveness, restlessness, rheum, roast, rook, ruffle, saliva, sanies, scald, scorch, scramble, scratch, scut work, seek, seep, seethe, serous fluid, serum, serviceman, sew, shakes, shimmer with heat, shivers, shuffle, simmer, sit up for, slave, slavery, slog, slogging, smolder, smother, snot, spadework, spark, spasm, spurt, spurtle, squirm, stay up for, steam, stew, stick, stifle, stir, strain, streams of sweat, strive, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, study, sudor, sudoresis, suffocate, suppuration, swaddy, swat, swatting, sweat and stew, sweat blood, sweat it out, sweat out, sweating, swelter, swirl, swivet, swot, swotting, task, tax, tear, teardrop, tense readiness, the whites, thrill of fear, tiresome work, tizzy, to-do, toast, toil, transude, travail, treadmill, trembles, trepidation, trepidity, trickle, tumult, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquiet, unquietness, unsettlement, upset, urine, vortex, wait, wait for, wait impatiently, wait on, wait up for, warrior, watch, watch and wait, water, weep, whirl, willies, wilt, work, work hard, work late, work overtime, worry

Etymology

Old English swāt < Proto-Germanic *swait- < Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian خوی (xway) Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

fluid that exits the body through pores
slang for soldier

Verb

to emit sweat
informal: to work hard
informal: to worry
The translations below need to be checked.
Translations to be checked
to emit in the manner of sweat
to solder together

Anagrams

French

Noun

Sweat m. (plural Sweats)

  1. sweatshirt
    Les sweats à capuche sont interdits dans certaines lieux publics en Grande-Bretagne.
    Hoodies are prohibited in some places in Great Britain.

Etymology

From English sweatshirt.

Pronunciation

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