Synonyms for sweat
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : swet |
| Phonetic Transcription : swɛt |
Top 10 synonyms for sweat Other synonyms for the word sweat
- backbreaker
- be on pins and needles
- be on tenterhooks
- break out in a sweat
- diaphoresis
- drip
- drudgery
- effort
- eject
- endure
- excretion
- exert
- exudation
- exude
- fret
- go
- grind
- labor
- lose sleep over
- moil
- ooze
- secrete
- seep
- slavery
- spout
- stand
- stay the course
- stick it out
- stomach
- sudor
- suffer
- take
- task
- toil
- tolerate
- torture
- transudation
- transude
- travail
- work
- work hard
Définition of sweat
Origin :- Old English swætan "perspire, work hard," from the source of sweat (n.). Meaning "to be worried, vexed" is recorded from c.1400. Related: Sweated; sweating. Colloquial no sweat "no problem" attested from 1963.
- noun body's perspiring
- noun hard work
- verb perspire
- verb worry about; bear
- The sweat glistened on their bodies, but their eyes gleamed fanatically.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- Great beads of sweat stood on his brow and he wiped them away with his sleeve.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- Then I saw a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead, and I knew that he was beaten.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- It was terrible work, like earning a living with the sweat of the brow.
- Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- The sweat oozed from his shiny forehead as he backed cautiously away.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- In this manner they fill their whole house with tobacco, and leave it to sweat and dry.
- Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
- The sweat had curled Mukhorty's coat between his legs and on his neck.
- Extract from : « Master and Man » by Leo Tolstoy
- Then he sunk down in a chair all limp and sick like, and wiped the sweat off of his face.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Then we went down, being in a sweat to know what the letter said.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Our agriculture is precarious, and 27 every carrot is bought by the sweat of our brow.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
Antonyms for sweat
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