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sweated sweat·ed

Spelling: [swet-id]

IPA: /ˈswɛt ɪd/

Sweated is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in sweated (adeestw).

Definitions for sweated

noun

1. the process of sweating or perspiring.
2. that which is secreted from sweat glands; perspiration.
3. a state or a period of sweating.
4. hard work.
5. Informal. a state of anxiety or impatience.
6. a process of inducing sweating or perspiration, or of being sweated, as in medical treatment.
7. moisture exuded from something or gathered on a surface.
8. an exuding of moisture, as by a substance.
9. an inducing of such exudation, as in some industrial process.
10. a run given to a horse for exercise, as before a race.
11. sweats, Informal. sweatpants, sweatshirts, sweat suits, or the like.

Idioms

1. no sweat, Informal. with no difficulty or problem.
2. sweat blood, Informal. to be under a strain; work strenuously. to wait anxiously; worry:
3. sweat bullets, Informal. to sweat profusely. to be apprehensive; worry.
4. sweat it, Informal. to wait anxiously; endure the best way one can: to worry; be apprehensive:

adjective

1. made by underpaid workers.
2. underpaid and overworked.
3. having poor working conditions.
4. 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

1. sweat out, Informal. to await anxiously the outcome of; endure apprehensively: to work arduously at or toward:

verb (used with object)

1. to excrete (perspiration, moisture, etc.) through the pores of the skin.
2. to exude in drops or small particles:
3. to send forth or get rid of with or like perspiration (often followed by out or off).
4. to wet or stain with perspiration.
5. to cause (a person, a horse, etc.) to perspire.
6. to cause to exude moisture, especially as a step in an industrial drying process:
7. to earn, produce, or obtain (a result, promotion, compliment, etc.) by hard work.
8. to cause to lose (weight) as by perspiring or hard work:
9. to cause, force, or bring pressure on (a person, an animal, etc.) to work hard.
10. to employ (workers) at low wages, for long hours, or under other unfavorable conditions.
11. to labor with meticulous care over:
12. Slang. to obtain or extort (money) from someone. to extort money from; fleece.
13. Slang. to subject to severe questioning; give the third degree to.
14. 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.
15. to remove bits of metal from (gold coins) by shaking them against one another, as in a bag. Compare clip1 (def 4).
16. to cause (tobacco or cocoa) to ferment.

verb (used without object)

1. to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
2. to exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap or cheese.
3. to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation.
4. (of moisture or liquid) to ooze or be exuded.
5. Informal. to work hard.
6. Informal. to experience distress, as from anxiety.
7. (of tobacco) to ferment.

Origin of sweated

1645-55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880-85 for def 2; sweat + -ed²

Examples for sweated

But oh, God, those hours while I sweated it out until I saw my mother!

Some sweated enormously, and broke out in blasphemous language.

Privately, he had huge inhibitions about hustling, but he fought them down and sweated.

I sweated and shivered over that business considerably, I can tell you.

Take these sweated workers; that class o' people are quite 'opeless.

The sweated trades are a familiar example of the former method of concentration.

Every time we drove the two hours there, we sweated bullets for fear of being discovered.

Nine-tenths of the sweated work of this country is done by women.

While we skulked in the shadows, they had studied and sweated and changed the face of their world.

Because, well, you heard what he said—self-revelation—men who had sweated.