Details of word SWEAT

Definition of sweat

imp. & p. p. - of Sweat
v. i. - To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
v. i. - Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
v. i. - To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
v. t. - To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
v. t. - To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
v. t. - To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
v. t. - To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
v. i. - The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
v. i. - The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
v. i. - Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
v. i. - The sweating sickness.
v. i. - A short run by a race horse in exercise.

Word "sweat" contains 5 letters : A E S T W

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