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Sweat   /swɛt/   Listen
Sweat

noun
1.
Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands.  Synonyms: perspiration, sudor.
2.
Agitation resulting from active worry.  Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, swither.  "He's in a sweat about exams"
3.
Condensation of moisture on a cold surface.
4.
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work.  Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail.  "They managed only with great exertion"
verb
(past & past part. sweat or sweated, obs. swat; pres. part. sweating)
1.
Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.  Synonyms: perspire, sudate.



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"Sweat" Quotes from Famous Books



... I learned their herb remedies, and mighty good some of 'em are, too. They're particularly strong with chills and fever, and I'm going to make you a tea that'll just lay hold of you and drive all the fever out of your veins. What you want to do, Paul, is to sweat, and to sweat gallons." ...
— The Forest Runners - A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... These were the people whose children we are. What are inherited titles and ancient names many times since dishonored, compared with the heritage of uncomplaining suffering and heroism which we boast of to-day because those modest martyrs were working people, proud that by the sweat of their brows they wrung from a niggardly soil the food they ate, proud also that they could leave the plough to govern or to legislate, able also to survey a county ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... those that were nearest to them, they came to fight hand to hand, before the sight of so vast a multitude had struck terror into them. They were so much used to labor, and so well exercised, that in all the heat and toil of the encounter, not one of them was observed either to sweat, or to be out of breath; so much so, that Catulus himself, they say, recorded it in commendation ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... transfigured into a rolling thing before the whirlwind. It is painful to be compelled to inscribe upon such a shield the word "Desdichado." It is painful to remember how much misery must have passed through that heart, and how many sweat drops of agony must have stood, in desolate state, upon that brow. And it is most painful of all to feel that guilt, as well as misery, has been here, and that the sowing of the wind preceded ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... them held out an instrument. He studied the dial. "All clear," and both men removed their helmets. They wiped sweat from their faces and glanced at ...
— Operation Lorelie • William P. Salton


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