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.
Definitions
- past tense & past participle. of Sweat
- intransitive verb. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
- intransitive verb. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
- intransitive verb. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
- transitive verb. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
- transitive verb. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
- transitive verb. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
- transitive 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.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
- intransitive verb. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
- intransitive verb. The sweating sickness.
- intransitive verb. A short run by a race horse in exercise.
- noun. use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for effort"
"they managed only with great exertion"
- noun. salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
"sweat poured off his brow"
- noun. condensation of moisture on a cold surface
"the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
- noun. agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"
"he's in a sweat about exams"
- verb. excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
"Exercise makes one sweat"
Synonyms
effort, exertion, travail, perspiration, sudor, fret, lather, stew, swither, perspire, sudate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sweat:
awest, etwas, tawse, waste, wetas
Common word forms
sweats, sweated, sweater, sweatful, sweating, sweatless
Words from these letters
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