Sweat Sweating Swet Work Hard I Sweated Verb

• to sweat heavily
• the palms of his hands began to sweat.
• he was sweating buckets (= a lot).
• the cheese was beginning to sweat.

sweat

1. when you sweat, drops of liquid appear on the surface of your skin, for example when you are hot, ill/sick or afraid
• synonym perspire
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• to sweat heavily
• The palms of his hands began to sweat.
• He was sweating buckets (= a lot).
2. if something sweats, the liquid that is contained in it appears on its surface
• The cheese was beginning to sweat.
• The walls will continue to sweat until the plaster is completely dry.
3. to work hard at something
• Are you still sweating over that report?
4. to worry or feel anxious about something
• They really made me sweat during the interview.
• Even though she’d made her decision, she let them sweat for another week.
5. if you sweat meat or vegetables or let them sweat, you heat them slowly with a little fat in a pan that is covered with a lid
6. used to tell somebody to stop worrying about something
• ‘I’m sure he’ll find out.’ ‘Don’t sweat it—no one’s going to tell him.’
7. used to tell somebody not to worry about small details or unimportant things
8. to work very hard to achieve something
• I slogged my guts out for the exam.
9. to work very hard
• I sweated blood to get everything ready in time.

Extra Examples

• After two hours of digging he was sweating like a pig.
• He awoke with a pounding heart, sweating with fear.
• He’s trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.
• The heat was making us sweat.
• We were sweating profusely from the exertion of moving the furniture.
• You can sweat out toxins in the sauna.
• Don’t sweat it — We’ll be fine.
• Oh, let them sweat a bit.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they sweat
• he / she / it sweats
• past simple sweated
• past participle sweated
• -ing form sweating

Word Origin

• Old English swāt (noun), swǣtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zweet and German Schweiss, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sudor.