Sweat
[swet] or [swɛt]
Definition
(noun.) condensation of moisture on a cold surface; 'the cold glasses were streaked with sweat'.
(verb.) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; 'Exercise makes one sweat'.
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
(v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
(v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
(v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
(v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
(v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
(v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
(v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
(v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
(v. i.) The sweating sickness.
(v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Perspiration, exudation, excretion, sweating.
v. n. [1]. Perspire.[2]. Toll, labor, drudge.
v. a. [1]. Exude.[2]. Put into a perspiration.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perspiration, exudation, sweating, excretion,[See AFFIRM_and_CURSE]
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Definition
n. the moisture from the skin the state of one who sweats diaphoresis: labour: drudgery.—v.i. to give out sweat or moisture: to toil drudge for poor wages: to suffer penalty smart.—v.t. to give out as sweat: to cause to sweat: to squeeze money or extortionate interest from to compel to hard work for mean wages: to wear away or pare down by friction or other means as coins: to scrape the sweat from a horse.—ns. Sweat′er one who sweats or that which causes sweating a diaphoretic: a heavy kind of jersey used by persons in training for athletic contests to reduce their weight: one who sweats coins: a London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point; Sweat′iness; Sweat′ing-bath a bath to promote perspiration; Sweat′ing-house -room a house room for sweating persons: a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices; Sweat′ing-sick′ness an extremely fatal epidemic disorder which ravaged Europe and esp. England in the 15th and 16th centuries—a violent inflammatory fever with a fetid perspiration over the whole body; Sweat′ing-sys′tem the practice of working poor people at starvation wages esp. in making up clothes in their own houses.—adj. Sweat′y wet with sweat: consisting of sweat: laborious.
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Examples
- But further precaution was still due to the sweat of this honest fellow's brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Lord bless us, Mas'r, said Sam, in a tone of the deepest concern, and me that has been racin' and chasin' till the sweat jest pours off me! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The T'other Governor he's always joked his jokes agin me, owing, as I believe, to my being a honest man as gets my living by the sweat of my brow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not to risk being done out of the sweat of my brow, by any chances, I should wish afore going further to be swore in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- With the sweat of your brow? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was still wet with sweat. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He turned his head, sweating, and looked down the slope, then back toward where the girl was in the saddle with Pilar by her and Pablo just behind. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He got onto his elbows, stretched the left leg well behind him with both hands and a far, sweating, push with the right foot and there he was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And, while he lay sweating with terror, he knew not when or how, the thing was gone. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He knew there was a great hurry and he was sweating very much, but this had to be said and understood. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Both man and horse were sweating with violence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was sweating heavily now and it was cool under the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He wore a corporal's stripes on his sleeves and was sweating very much although the early morning was still cool. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You sweated enough, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He had been spurred and whipped and heavily sweated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But she sweats so, nights! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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