💧 To perspire 💦 A body fluid 😰 Nervous state 💪 Hard effort 🧊 Surface moisture

to sweat

494 1.0

To make drops of liquid come from your skin when hot or nervous

verb
/swɛt/

: sudar

After jogging in the heat, I began to sweat profusely.
begin to sweat
sweat profusely
sweat too much

And so he's, you know, he's sweating, his tears going down his cheeks.

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Examples

It is also the first place that I sweat and under my eyes as well.
I burn more calories, you know, and then I sweat more doing this.
I have a thing where I sweat a lot in my sleep.
Do you feel like you would sweat in normal shoes but not those?
Do your... hands sweat before a fight?

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
OK, first question, do you sweat a lot from your armpits?
Again, he experienced chest pains, sweating, and his whole body began to shake.

Academic text (2012)
Approaches them looking pale, thin, and drawn, dressed in exercise clothes, sweating and still crying.

Fiction book (1990)
I looked around and saw no "masked" figures, only tired, sweating women who had been dancing since before dawn.

Academic text (1998)
The rise was gentle but persistent, and Levidow was soon sweating in earnest under his suit jacket.

Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

to perspire

vsto sweat

16 3.2

To sweat because of heat, exercise, or nerves

is the same action described using a different term

to sudate

vsto sweat

Specialized

9.9

To make sweat from the skin when hot or after exercise

focuses on causes like heat effort or stress rather than subject

Antonyms

to cool down

28 1.1

Become less hot or make something less hot

Idioms

to break a sweat

Informal

20 4.1

To start sweating from hard work or to need to try hard

to sweat bullets

Informal

5 8.8

To feel very nervous before something difficult or scary

to sweat the small stuff

Informal

4 7.7

Worry too much about small, unimportant things

don't sweat it

Informal

1 7.4

Tell someone not to worry because it is not a problem

sweat of one's brow

Literature

1 5.8

Hard work done to earn money or achieve something

to sweat the details

Informal

1 6.7

To worry too much about small, unimportant things

to sweat bricks

Informal

9.9

To feel very nervous while waiting for something important

Phrasal Verbs

to sweat it out

Informal

8 7.3

Go through a hard or anxious time until it ends, sometimes by exercising

to sweat off

Informal

1 4.8

To lose weight by sweating, often during hard exercise or heat

Compounds

cold sweat

12 3.7

A sweat that appears while you feel cold because you are scared or ill

sweat suit

5 2.0

A matching set of loose, comfortable clothes with sweatpants and a sweatshirt for exercise or casual wear

sweat gland

Specialized

3 2.7

A tiny part in the skin that puts out liquid to cool your body

sweat equity

Jargon

2 6.7

Value you earn by working on a house or business yourself

sweat sock

2 2.4

A thick absorbent sock worn during sport to soak up sweat

armpit sweat

1 2.3

Wetness under the arms that appears when you are hot

sweat duct

Specialized

1 3.7

A tiny tube in the skin that carries salty liquid from a gland to the outer skin

sweat house

7.4

A small hut used for steam baths to clean the body and spirit

sweat bag

8.6

A bag with tiny holes that cools water as it evaporates

sweat room

5.8

A hot room like a sauna where steam makes you sweat and relax

How Much

to sweat

494 1.0

to break a sweat

Informal

20 4.1

Surface Forms

sweat infinitive

sweat past

sweat past participle

sweating present participle

sweats third person singular

Etymology

Sweat as a verb comes from an old English word for the wet fluid the body makes, and it is the same root as sweaty, so to sweat is to make your skin wet with that fluid.