Dictionary Entry
sweat
sweat is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Sweat. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense & past participle
of Sweat
- 2intransitive verb
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
- 3intransitive verb
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
- 4intransitive verb
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
- 5transitive verb
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
- 6transitive verb
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
- 7transitive verb
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
- 8transitive verb
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
- 9intransitive verb
The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
- 10intransitive verb
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
- 11intransitive verb
Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
- 12intransitive verb
The sweating sickness.
- 13intransitive verb
A short run by a race horse in exercise.
- 14noun
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for effort"
"they managed only with great exertion"
- 15noun
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
"sweat poured off his brow"
Synonyms
- 16noun
condensation of moisture on a cold surface
"the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
- 17noun
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"
"he's in a sweat about exams"
- 18verb
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
"Exercise makes one sweat"
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