Definitions for sweats
sweats
sweat
Spelling: [swet]
IPA: /swɛt/
Sweats is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 100 anagrams from letters in sweats (aesstw).
Definitions for sweats
noun
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the process of sweating or perspiring.
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that which is secreted from sweat glands; perspiration.
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a state or a period of sweating.
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hard work.
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Informal. a state of anxiety or impatience.
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a process of inducing sweating or perspiration, or of being sweated, as in medical treatment.
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moisture exuded from something or gathered on a surface.
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an exuding of moisture, as by a substance.
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an inducing of such exudation, as in some industrial process.
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a run given to a horse for exercise, as before a race.
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sweats, Informal. sweatpants, sweatshirts, sweat suits, or the like.
Idioms
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no sweat, Informal. with no difficulty or problem.
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sweat blood, Informal.
to be under a strain; work strenuously.
to wait anxiously; worry:
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sweat bullets, Informal.
to sweat profusely.
to be apprehensive; worry.
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sweat it, Informal.
to wait anxiously; endure the best way one can:
to worry; be apprehensive:
adjective
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Informal.
(of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity.
made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes:
of, for, or associated with such clothes:
Verb phrases
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sweat out, Informal.
to await anxiously the outcome of; endure apprehensively:
to work arduously at or toward:
verb (used with object)
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to excrete (perspiration, moisture, etc.) through the pores of the skin.
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to exude in drops or small particles:
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to send forth or get rid of with or like perspiration (often followed by out or off).
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to wet or stain with perspiration.
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to cause (a person, a horse, etc.) to perspire.
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to cause to exude moisture, especially as a step in an industrial drying process:
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to earn, produce, or obtain (a result, promotion, compliment, etc.) by hard work.
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to cause to lose (weight) as by perspiring or hard work:
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to cause, force, or bring pressure on (a person, an animal, etc.) to work hard.
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to employ (workers) at low wages, for long hours, or under other unfavorable conditions.
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to labor with meticulous care over:
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Slang.
to obtain or extort (money) from someone.
to extort money from; fleece.
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Slang. to subject to severe questioning; give the third degree to.
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Metallurgy.
to heat (an alloy) in order to remove a constituent melting at a lower temperature than the alloy as a whole.
to heat (solder or the like) to melting.
to join (metal objects) by heating and pressing together, usually with solder.
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to remove bits of metal from (gold coins) by shaking them against one another, as in a bag.
Compare clip1 (def 4).
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to cause (tobacco or cocoa) to ferment.
verb (used without object)
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to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
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to exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap or cheese.
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to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation.
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(of moisture or liquid) to ooze or be exuded.
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Informal. to work hard.
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Informal. to experience distress, as from anxiety.
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(of tobacco) to ferment.
Origin of sweats
before 900; 1970-75 for def 6; (v.) Middle English sweten, Old English swǣtan to sweat, derivative of swāt (noun) (> obsolete English swote); (noun) Middle English, alteration of swote, in
Examples for sweats
The news went to Washington that night, and they say Uncle Abe had night sweats.
The lean and athletic Katniss was dressed in sweats and halfway through the extensive process of putting on her face.
Beneath the grinding of the years, life gropes, shrieks, sweats.
Jim had to cajole me, as it was already late, and I was lounging around in sweats, book in hand.
These sweats will disappear as soon as the mother begins to regain her strength.
It cheats and it sweats and it eviscerates and procrastinates and it comes up pathetically short in almost every area.
A vinegar rub administered on going to bed may often prevent these sweats.
My health wasn't very good; I had a bad cough and night sweats.
They could be pajama bottoms, sweats, fleece kind of things.
As she gets up, towering over her three handlers, it is tough to imagine Davis ever wearing a pair of sweats.