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sweat
noun
1 sweat
Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands:
— Sweat poured off his brow.
synonyms: perspiration, sudor.
Roget 688:
fatigue;
weariness
etc.
841;
yawning,
drowsiness
etc.
683;
lassitude,
tiredness,
fatigation†,
exhaustion;
sweat;
dyspnoea.
anhelation,
shortness of breath;
faintness;
collapse,
prostration,
swoon,
fainting,
deliquium [Lat.],
syncope,
lipothymy†;
goneness†.
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Roget 299:
excretion,
discharge,
emanation;
exhalation,
exudation,
extrusion,
secretion,
effusion,
extravasation [Med.],
ecchymosis [Med.];
evacuation,
dejection,
faeces,
excrement,
shit,
stools,
crap [Vulg.];
bloody flux;
cacation†;
coeliac-flux,
coeliac-passion;
dysentery;
perspiration,
sweat;
subation†,
exudation;
diaphoresis;
sewage;
eccrinology [Med.].
saliva,
spittle,
rheum;
ptyalism†,
salivation,
catarrh;
diarrhoea;
ejecta,
egesta [Biol.],
sputa;
excreta;
lava;
exuviae
etc.
(uncleanness)
653 [Lat.].
hemorrhage,
bleeding;
outpouring
etc.
(egress)
295.
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Dutch: Sudor, transpiratievocht, transpiratie, zweet
Polish: pot
2 sweat
Agitation resulting from active worry:
— He's in a sweat about exams.
synonyms: fret, lather, stew, swither.
3 sweat
Condensation of moisture on a cold surface.
4 sweat
verb
1 sweat
Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin:
— Exercise makes one sweat.
synonyms: perspire, sudate.
Roget 295:
emerge,
emanate,
issue;
egress;
go out of,
come out of,
move out of,
pass out of,
pour out of,
flow out of;
pass out of,
evacuate.
exude,
transude;
leak,
run through,
out through;
percolate,
transcolate†;
egurgitate†;
strain,
distill;
perspire,
sweat,
drain,
ooze;
filter,
filtrate;
dribble,
gush,
spout,
flow out;
well,
well out;
pour,
trickle,
etc.
(water in motion)
348;
effuse,
extravasate [Med.],
disembogue†,
discharge itself,
debouch;
come forth,
break forth;
burst out,
burst through;
find vent;
escape
etc.
671.
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Roget 686:
exert oneself;
exert one's energies,
tax one's energies;
use exertion.
labor,
work,
toil,
moil,
sweat,
fag,
drudge,
slave,
drag a lengthened chain,
wade through,
strive,
stretch a long arm;
pull,
tug,
ply;
ply the oar,
tug at the oar;
do the work;
take the laboring oar bestir oneself
(be active)
682;
take trouble,
trouble oneself.
work hard;
rough it;
put forth one's strength,
put forth a strong arm;
fall to work,
bend the bow;
buckle to,
set one's shoulder to the wheel
etc.
(resolution)
604;
work like a horse,
work like a cart horse,
work like a galley slave,
work like a coal heaver;
labor day and night,
work day and night;
redouble one's efforts;
do double duty;
work double hours,
work double tides;
sit up,
burn the candle at both ends;
stick to
etc.
(persevere)
604.1;
work one's way,
fight one's way,
lay about one,
hammer at.
take pains;
do one's best,
do one's level best,
do one's utmost;
give one hundred percent,
do the best one can,
do all one can,
do all in one's power,
do as much as in one lies,
do what lies in one's power;
use one's best endeavor,
use one's utmost endeavor;
try one's best,
try one's utmost;
play one's best card;
put one's best leg foremost,
put one's right leg foremost;
have one's whole soul in his work,
put all one's strength into,
strain every nerve;
spare no efforts,
spare no pains;
go all lengths;
go through fire and water
etc.
(resolution)
604;
move heaven and earth,
leave no stone unturned.
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Roget 382:
be hot
etc.
adj.;
glow,
flush,
sweat,
swelter,
bask,
smoke,
reek,
stew,
simmer,
seethe,
boil,
burn,
blister,
broil,
blaze,
flame;
smolder;
parch,
fume,
pant.
heat
etc.
(make hot)
384;
recalesce†;
thaw,
give.
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Dutch: zweet, bezweten, transpireren, zweten
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