sweat
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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 is sweating; diaphoresis.
“Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.”
Hard work; toil.
Moisture issuing from any substance.
Verb 4 meanings
To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To work hard.
“I've been sweating over my essay all day.”
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
“to sweat a spendthrift”
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”).
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SWEAT at a glance
SWEAT has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + W 4 + E 1 + A 1 + T 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,642 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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