sweat
Noun:
- Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands: The clear, salty liquid that comes out through your skin when you are hot, nervous, or ill.
- Condensation of moisture on a cold surface: Drops of water that form on a cold surface when warm, moist air touches it.
- Hard work, strenuous effort: The use of a lot of physical or mental energy; difficult labor.
- A state of anxiety or worry: A state of nervous agitation or worry.
Verb (intransitive):
- To excrete perspiration: To have sweat come out through the pores of your skin.
- To work hard: To work very hard at something.
- To be anxious or worried: To be in a state of nervous anticipation.
Verb (transitive):
- To cause to sweat: To make someone or something sweat.
- To extract something through pressure: To force someone to give something up, such as information or money, through intense pressure.
Noun (fluid):
- After the run, his shirt was soaked with sweat.
- She wiped the sweat from her brow.
Noun (condensation):
- There was sweat on the cold glass of lemonade.
Noun (hard work):
- He earned his money by the sweat of his brow.
- This job is a real sweat.
Noun (worry):
- He's in a sweat about his final exams.
Verb (intransitive - excrete):
- I always sweat when I exercise.
- The intense heat made everyone sweat.
Verb (intransitive - work hard):
- We sweated for hours to finish the project on time.
Verb (transitive - cause to sweat):
- The sauna really sweats the toxins out of you.
- The coach sweated the players during practice.
"To sweat the small stuff": To worry about minor, unimportant details.
- Try not to sweat the small stuff; focus on the big picture.
"To sweat blood": To work extremely hard or to be very anxious about something.
- I sweated blood to get that report finished.
"No sweat" (informal): Used to say that something is not a problem or is easy to do.
- "Can you fix this?" "Sure, no sweat."
Sweaty (adj): Covered in or producing sweat.
- It was a hot, sweaty day.
Sweats (n, plural): Informal term for sweatpants or a sweatsuit.
- I changed into my sweats after work.
Sweat gland (n): The small organ under your skin that produces sweat.
- Perspiration (n): The more formal term for sweat (fluid).
- Exertion (n): Physical or mental effort.
- Labor (n): Hard work.
- Perspire (v): To sweat (more formal).
Sweat out:
- To endure something unpleasant until it ends.
- We just had to sweat out the storm in the cabin.
- To try to get rid of an illness by sweating.
- He's trying to sweat out his cold.
Sweat over: To spend a lot of time and effort worrying about or working on something.
- Don't sweat over the details right now.
By the sweat of one's brow: By one's own hard work and effort.
- He built the business by the sweat of his brow.
Break out in a cold sweat: To suddenly become very frightened or nervous.
- I break out in a cold sweat just thinking about public speaking.
Don't sweat it (informal): Don't worry about it.
- "I'm sorry I'm late." "Don't sweat it, we just started."
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work
- he got an A for effort
- they managed only with great exertion
- condensation of moisture on a cold surface
- the cold glasses were streaked with sweat
- agitation resulting from active worry
- don't get in a stew
- he's in a sweat about exams
- salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- sweat poured off his brow
- excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
- Exercise makes one sweat