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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
The sweating sickness.
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
An extremely or excessively competitive player.
Where this word comes from
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”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.
To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
To cause to excrete moisture through skin. To cause to perspire.
His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
To work hard.
I've been sweating over my essay all day.
To work hard. To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
to sweat a spendthrift
to sweat labourers
To worry.
To worry about (something).
Don't sweat it!
to sweat the small stuff
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
to sweat blood
To emit moisture.
The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
To stress out, to put under pressure.
Stop sweatin' me!
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.