sweat /swet/

1. The moisture excreted by the skin
2. Moisture exuding or seeming to exude from anything
3. A state, fit or process of exuding sweat
4. Exercise or treatment inducing sweat
5. Sweating sickness (obsolete)
6. Labour
7. Long, hard work
8. Drudgery
9. Fidgety anxiety
10. A soldier (slang)
11. (in pl) a sweatsuit or sweatpants (informal, esp N American)

1. To give out sweat or moisture
2. To do difficult, strenuous work (informal)
3. To toil, drudge for poor wages
4. To exude
5. To become coated with moisture
6. To worry, be anxious (informal)
7. To suffer penalty, smart (obsolete)

1. To exude as, or like, sweat
2. To cause to sweat
3. To heat (fruit, meat, etc) slowly so as to extract the juices (cookery)
4. To squeeze money or extortionate interest from
5. To exact the utmost from
6. To wring evidence or confession from (US sl)
7. To extract undue gains from, eg by removing gold from a coin
8. To compel to do hard work for meagre wages
9. To unite by the partial fusion of metal surfaces
10. To wet or soil with sweat
11. To worry over (US informal)

sweatˈed adjective

sweatˈer noun

1. A person who or animal, etc that sweats
2. A cause of sweating, eg a diaphoretic medicine
3. A (heavy) jersey for leisurewear, intervals in exercise, etc (orig one for reducing weight by sweating)
4. Someone who sweats coins or workers
5. A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded and threatened passers-by with his sword

sweatˈiness noun

sweatˈing noun and adjective

sweatˈy adjective

sweat band noun

1. The leather or similar band inside a man's hat
2. A band worn to absorb perspiration from the forehead
3. An absorbent wristlet worn by eg tennis players to prevent sweat running down to their hands

sweat cooling noun (aeronautics)

Cooling a component by evaporating fluid through a porous layer

sweated labour noun

Hard work obtained by exploitation

sweatˈer-girl noun (informal)

A woman with a large bust, usu one wearing a tight-fitting sweater

sweat gland noun

Any of the glands producing sweat

sweating sickness noun

An epidemic disorder (usu fatal) which ravaged Europe and esp England in the 15c and 16c, a violent inflammatory fever, with a fetid perspiration over the whole body

sweating system noun

The practice of working poor people at starvation wages, for long hours, at home or in unhealthy rooms

sweatˈpants plural noun (esp US)

Trousers of (usu thick) cotton material, with drawstring or elasticated waist and cuffs, as worn by athletes when warming up or after exercise or as leisurewear

sweatˈ-shirt or sweatˈshirt noun

A long-sleeved knitted cotton sweater, usu fleecy on the inside

sweat shop noun

A factory or shop using sweated labour

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