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Sweated

Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid to sweat. [root]178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]

  1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
    --Shak.

  2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

    He 'd have the poets sweat.
    --Waller.

  3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

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sweated
  1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions. v

  2. (en-past of: sweat)

Usage examples of "sweated".

Davy, even more than Joy, sweated just handling the caving clothes in desert heat.

Angelo groaned and turned a light chocolate colour every time he bent over to coil a rope or rig the rods and Chubby sweated neat alcohol and his expression was truly terrifying.

It was gray and sweated driblets of mud, but the features were indisputably human.

I came out every morning after that with Eln, and struggled and sweated while he flew gloriously overhead.

He panted and sweated, and his face, in the gaslight at the corner stanchion, gleamed in oily unhealth.

I lay and sweated on my bed till dinner time, wondering how I was to contact Gorde and thinking about Ruffini.

I was not alarmed personally, for, as I suffered no pain and the lump was quite soft, I guessed it was only a collection of lymph, the remainder of the evil humours which I had sweated away in the fever.

Plunging down upon it ifand Jon Hoff sweated as he thought of itif it had not already overshot its mark.

Then with a sursum corda on his lips in farewell to the image abandoned in the mirror, he undressed again and lay down on his sweated mattress.

The night was not warm, with the breeze coming off the gulf, but Pavlo sweated oilily in the limelight, and fumbled his commands to the dogs and the albino children and his wife, and kept glancing up at the sky, which had begun ruddily to lighten in the east.

I kept staring back astern into the darkness but never ceasing to puple that filthy scum, striking at it and switching it from side to side until I sweated.

Van Swieten, quoting from Benivenius, relates a case of a man who once a month sweated great quantities of blood from his right flank.

Her palms sweated so that she had to wipe them off to keep from smearing the ink in her book.

I held your hand and sponged your brow and wiped your ass while you sweated the stuff out of your system the last time.

I had raised onto one elbow and opened one eye past a bush: the same overalls, tieless, the sweated hats, the chewing tobacco, squatting, unhurried, not talking very much, looking inscrutably at the horse.