SWEAT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of sweat in English sweatnoun uk /swet/ us /swet/

sweat noun (LIQUID)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 [ U ] the clear, salty liquid that you pass through your skin: dripping with/pouring with sweat The dancers were dripping with/pouring with sweat after a morning's rehearsal.covered in sweat By the time we'd climbed to the top of the hill, we were covered in sweat.bead of sweat She wiped the beads (= drops) of sweat from her forehead.figurative The cathedral was built by human toil and sweat (= effort).   edelmar/E+/GettyImages

• The athletes were drenched in sweat.
• The sweat was pouring down her face by the end of the race.
• Beads of sweat stood out on his forehead.
• I can feel trickles of sweat running down my neck.
• He sat down and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production

• bile salt
• biliary
• bilirubin
• bodily fluid
• bogy
• drool
• expectorate
• night sweats
• parotid gland
• perspiratory
• perspire
• phlegm
• postnasal drip
• purulent
• saliva
• seminal
• slag
• spermatozoon
• sweat buckets idiom
• sweaty

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sweat noun (CLOTHES)

 sweats [ plural ] US (UK tracksuit) a loose top and trousers, worn either by people who are training for a sport or exercising, or as informal clothing: Sweats are certainly comfortable, but you can get bored with wearing them every day. See more

See also

blood, sweat, and tears

Idioms

get in a sweat no sweat sweatverb uk /swet/ us /swet/

sweat verb (PRODUCE LIQUID)

B2 [ I ] to pass sweat through the skin because you are hot, ill, or frightened: It was so hot when we arrived in Tripoli that we started to sweat as soon as we got off the plane.sweat with The prisoners were sweating with fear.sweat like a pig informal I was so afraid, I was sweating like a pig (= sweating a lot). [ I ] If something sweats, it produces drops of liquid on the outside: sweat with The walls in older houses sometimes sweat with damp.

• Someone who is suffering from sunstroke feels dizzy and has a high temperature, but does not sweat.
• It was my first interview and I was sweating buckets.
• This jumper always makes me sweat.
• The heating was turned up so high that I was beginning to sweat.
• We were sweating buckets sleeping under a really thick duvet.

Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production

• bile salt
• biliary
• bilirubin
• bodily fluid
• bogy
• drool
• expectorate
• night sweats
• parotid gland
• perspiratory
• perspire
• phlegm
• postnasal drip
• purulent
• saliva
• seminal
• slag
• spermatozoon
• sweat buckets idiom
• sweaty

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Wet weather & wetness

sweat verb (WORK HARD)

[ I ] to work very hard to achieve something: Volunteers sweated to get the room ready for the dance. Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

• A game
• accomplish
• achieve
• acquit
• actualize
• bear
• carry
• get (something) off the ground idiom
• get ahead phrasal verb
• get away with something phrasal verb
• get in/get into something phrasal verb
• get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
• pan
• punch above your weight idiom
• re-attain
• reach the heights of something
• ride, drive, walk, etc. (off) into the sunset idiom
• romp through something phrasal verb
• stick
• storm

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sweat verb (WORRY)

[ T ] mainly US informal to worry about something: He is a great boss, focused on managing the big picture and rarely sweating the details.  don't sweat it! mainly US informal used to tell someone not to worry about something: Can't make the gig? Don't sweat it; you'll have plenty more chances. See more  sweat the small stuff mainly US informal to worry about things that are not important: don't sweat the small stuff Be positive, don't sweat the small stuff, and stop doing things you don't like. See more Anxious and worried

• (all) hot and bothered idiom
• aflutter
• agitated
• agitatedly
• angsty
• fret about something
• fretful
• fretfully
• frightened
• fuss
• oppressed
• overwrought
• perturbed
• pit of your stomach idiom
• preoccupied
• unsettled
• uptight
• wired
• worried
• worriedly

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Idioms

make someone sweat sweat blood sweat bullets sweat it out

Phrasal verb

sweat over something (Definition of sweat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

sweat | American Dictionary

sweatverb [ I ] us /swet/ past tense sweat or sweated | present participle sweated (fml perspire) Add to word list Add to word list to excrete a salty, colorless liquid through the skin, esp. when you are hot or frightened: He was sweating profusely. If something sweats, it has drops of liquid on the outside: The soda cans sweat in this humidity. You may say you sweat if you feel worried: We have to sweat about money because we don’t have much of it. sweatnoun [ U ] us /swet/ (fml perspiration) the salty, colorless liquid that you excrete through your skin: beads of sweat Sweat is also effort or work: They lived off the sweat and toil of others. (Definition of sweat from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of sweat

sweat Patients with excessive sweating on the palms 100%. From the Cambridge English Corpus Increased sweating 45% (associated with heat and exercise). From the Cambridge English Corpus Synchronous diaphragmatic flutter, tachypnoea, stiff gait, profuse sweating and ataxia are possible clinical signs of hypocalcaemia, but were not observed during this race4,8,32. From the Cambridge English Corpus Patients with excessive sweating on: palms 90%, soles 84%, underarms 11% and face 18%. From the Cambridge English Corpus Patients with excessive sweating on: palms 52%, palms and underarms 43% and underarms 6%. From the Cambridge English Corpus Treatment with hyperimmune sera protected against sweating sickness and the recovered animals showed no sweating sickness symptoms upon re-challenge. From the Cambridge English Corpus The first described a low level of activity, such as walking, the other a high level of activity that leads to sweating and breathlessness. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, at the time of diagnosis, the majority of our patients presented with a combination of musculoskeletal manifestations, sweating and arthralgia. From the Cambridge English Corpus An illness characterized by acute or insidious onset of fever, night sweats, undue fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, headache, and arthralgia. From the Cambridge English Corpus On examination, the patient was bradycardic, febrile, sweating and vomiting. From the Cambridge English Corpus The water of the body sweats into the river; river water is made to evaporate through the body's heat; ice melts into the street. From the Cambridge English Corpus When only one organ is sweating (usually the head), it is a sign of pathological disfunction (membrorum debilitas). From the Cambridge English Corpus The symptoms associated with myelofibrosis are variable and in more than 50% of patients include marked lassitude, loss of weight and night sweats. From the Cambridge English Corpus Typically, seroconversion ' illness ' resembles a flu-like illness and can include fever, malaise, headaches, night sweats, nausea and diarrhoea [2-6]. From the Cambridge English Corpus One time he awoke in a state of terror, sweating like crazy, and he actually heard himself screaming. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of sweat These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of sweat?

Translations of sweat

in Chinese (Traditional) 液體, 汗，汗水, 服裝… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 液体, 汗，汗水, 服装… See more in Spanish sudor, sudar, sudar tinta… See more in Portuguese suor, suar, suor [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian घाम, घामाघूम होणे… See more 汗をかく, 発汗する, 汗… See more terlemek, ter, çok çalışmak… See more transpirer, suer, sueur… See more suar, suor… See more zweet, zweten, zwoegen… See more உங்கள் தோல் வழியாக நீங்கள் வெளியேற்றும் உப்பு திரவம், நீங்கள் சூடாகவோ, நோய்வாய்ப்பட்டதாகவோ அல்லது பயந்ததாகவோ இருப்பதால் தோல் வழியாக வியர்வையை வெளியேற்ற… See more पसीना, (गर्मी, रोग या भय के कारण) पसीना आना… See more કેદીઓ ભયથી પરસેવો વળી ગયો હતો., રસેવો (ગરમી, રોગ અથવા ભયને કારણે)… See more sved, svede… See more svett, svettas, slita… See more peluh, berpeluh, bekerja keras… See more der Schweiß, schwitzen, sich schinden… See more svette [masculine], svetting [masculine], svette… See more پسینہ, پسینہ آنا, پسینہ بہنا… See more піт, випоти, потіти… See more చెమట, చెమట కార్చు, చెమటోడ్చు… See more ঘাম, স্বেদ, ঘাম দেওয়া… See more pot, potit se, dřít (se)… See more keringat, berkeringat, bekerja keras… See more เหงื่อ, ทำให้เหงื่อออก, ทำงานหนัก… See more mồ hôi, đổ mồ hôi, làm việc vất vả… See more pocić się, pot, pracować w pocie czoła… See more 땀을 흘리다, 땀… See more sudare, sudore, sgobbare… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of sweat

• cold sweat
• flop sweat
• sweat gland
• sweat labor
• sweat lodge
• sweat equity
• break out in a cold sweat

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• sweat sth out phrasal verb
• sweat over something phrasal verb

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• no sweat idiom
• sweat blood idiom
• sweat buckets idiom
• sweat bullets idiom
• make someone sweat idiom
• sweat it out idiom
• don't sweat it! phrase

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  • Noun 
    • sweat (LIQUID)
    • sweat (CLOTHES)
    • sweats
  • Verb 
    • sweat (PRODUCE LIQUID)
    • sweat (WORK HARD)
    • sweat (WORRY)
    • don't sweat it!
    • sweat the small stuff
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