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sweat  (swt)
v. sweat·ed or sweat, sweat·ing, sweats
v.intr.
1. To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
2. To exude in droplets, as moisture from certain cheeses or sap from a tree.
3. To condense atmospheric moisture.
4.
a. To release moisture, as hay in the swath.
b. To ferment, as tobacco during curing.
5. Informal
a. To work long and hard.
b. To suffer much, as for a misdeed.
6. Informal To fret or worry.
v.tr.
1. To excrete (moisture) through a porous surface, such as the skin.
2. To gather and condense (moisture) on a surface.
3. To cause to perspire, as by drugs, heat, or strenuous exercise.
4. To make damp or wet with perspiration.
5. To cause to work excessively; overwork.
6. To overwork and underpay (employees).
7. Slang
a. To interrogate (someone) under duress: sweated the suspected spy for hours.
b. To extract (information) from someone under duress: The police sweated the information out of the suspect.
8. Metallurgy To join (metal parts) by interposing cold solder and then heating.
9. To steam (vegetables or other food).
10. Informal To fret or worry about: Don't sweat the details.
n.
1. The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
2. Condensation of moisture in the form of droplets on a surface.
3.
a. The process of sweating.
b. A condition or period of sweating: worked up a sweat raking leaves.
c. The condition of being sweated.
4. Strenuous, exhaustive labor; drudgery.
5. A run given to a horse as exercise before a race.
6. Informal An anxious, fretful condition.
7. sweats Informal A sweatsuit.
Phrasal Verb:
sweat out Slang
1. To endure anxiously: sweat out an exam.
2. To await (something) anxiously: sweat out one's final grades.
Idioms:
no sweat Slang
Easily done or handled.
sweat blood Informal
1. To work diligently or strenuously.
2. To worry intensely.
sweat bullets Slang
To sweat profusely.
sweat of (one's) brow
Hard work: "keep what they produced by the sweat of their brow" (Mario Puzo).

[Middle English sweten, from Old English swtan; see sweid- in Indo-European roots.]

sweated [ˈswɛtɪd]
adj
1. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) made by exploited labour sweated goods
2. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) (of workers, etc.) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
Translations
sweated [ˈswetɪd] ADJ sweated labourtrabajo m muy mal pagado
sweated
adj workervöllig unterbezahlt, ausgebeutet; goodsfür einen Hungerlohn hergestellt; sweated labourbillige Arbeitskräfte pl; it was sweated labour! (inf)das war Ausbeutung


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On entering the forest the horses began to snort and sweated visibly.
We sweated our way through long sizzling weeks at a task that was never done; and many a night, while the students snored in bed, my partner and I toiled on under the electric light at steam mangle or ironing board.
I sweated and shivered over that business considerably, I can tell you.
 
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