Definition of Sweat

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Definition of Sweat

Sweat

of Sweat

To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.

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.

The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.

Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

The sweating sickness.

A short run by a race horse in exercise.

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Sweat Quotations

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Michael Jordan

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler

Sweat Translations

sweat in Danish is svede
sweat in Dutch is zweten, transpireren
sweat in Finnish is hikoilla
sweat in French is transpirer, suer, transpiration
sweat in Italian is sudare, sudore
sweat in Portuguese is suar, suor
sweat in Spanish is sudor, sudar, transpirar
sweat in Swedish is svettas, svett

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