Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to emit sweat:
Русский
By meaning 2
to emit sweat:
informal: to work hard:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to emit sweat:
informal: to worry:
transitive: to cook slowly without browning:

Examples

293 sentences
  1. Why are you sweating so much?

    Чому ти так пітнієш? — deniko

  2. Don't sweat it.

    Не переймайтесь. — rmdas

    deMach dir nichts draus. — enteka

  3. Tom is sweating.

    Том пітніє. — deniko

    ruТом потеет. — paul_lingvo

    deTom schwitzt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Meaning

17 senses
  1. (intransitive)To emit sweat.

    schwitzen

    поте́тьpotétʹ, вспоте́тьvspotétʹ, покрыва́ться испа́ринойpokryvátʹsja ispárinoj

    поті́тиpotíty, споті́тиspotíty, употі́тиupotíty

  2. (transitive)To cause to excrete moisture through skin.

    excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

  3. (informal, intransitive)To worry.

    sich sorgen

More meanings 14
  1. (informal, intransitive)To work hard.

    I've been sweating over my essay all day.

    вка́лыватьvkályvatʹ, горба́титьсяgorbátitʹsja, иша́читьišáčitʹ

  2. (intransitive, transitive)To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

    anschwitzen

  3. To cause to excrete moisture through skin.

    (transitive)To cause to perspire.

    His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

  4. To work hard.

    (informal, intransitive)To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.

    There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.

  5. (informal, transitive)To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.

    to sweat a spendthrift

    to sweat labourers

  6. (informal, transitive)To worry about (something).

    Don't sweat it!

    to sweat the small stuff

  7. (transitive)To emit, in the manner of sweat.

    to sweat blood

    schwitzen

  8. (intransitive)To emit moisture.

    The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.

  9. (intransitive)To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.

    Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.

Origin

From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to

From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.

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Forms

sweats, sweating, sweated, sweated

regular

Base formsweat · to sweat
3rd person singularsweats
Present participlesweating
Past simplesweated / sweat
Past participlesweated / sweat

Tenses

sweat · sweated · will sweat · have sweated

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysweat
he, she, itsweats

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sweated
he, she, ithas sweated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sweat

Past simpleLesson

all personssweated

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
To emit sweat:perspire
(informal)To worry:worryA2fret
(informal)To work hard:slaveA2slog
(informal)To extract money, labour, etc:bleedB1
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • sweat a lot
  • a good sweat
  • good sweat
  • sweating like

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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