sweat

CEFRB1

/swɛt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Liquid produced by the body to cool itself.

  2. 02

    verb

    To produce liquid through the skin.

Examples

  • I felt the sweat trickle down my brow.

  • Sweat is dripping from his face.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Hard work; toil.

  2. The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.

  3. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

More examples

In context

  • His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

  • I've been sweating over my essay all day.

  • Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.