Past tense of sweat
regular verb
The past tense of sweat is sweated or sweat. The past participle is also sweated or sweat.
Forms of sweat
| Base form (V1) | sweat /swɛt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | sweated sweat /swɛt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | sweated sweat /swɛt/ |
| Present participle | sweating /ˈswɛtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | sweats /swɛts/ |
Sweated in a sentence
- They sweated Vyreen's husband pretty hard for a while, though.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 118
- I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.From the entry bucket
- You have to pretend that what’s in you is being sweated out, purified.2008 March 30, Nellie, “You've got to take your mind off him”, in Let Loose Nellie, retrieved 27 Aug 2012. From the entry inwomb
- No longer did she go to the gym, where she and her girlfriends had donned Lycra tights and bras and sweated while they grape-vined left and right.2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter, page 97. From the entry grape-vine
- He was wearing jeans and a blue shirt too, but they wasn't all begaumed, the shirt had been clean afore he sweated it out clumbing up the hill.1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5. From the entry begaum
Meaning of sweat
- noun 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.
- noun The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
- noun Hard work; toil.
Questions about the past tense of sweat
- What is the past tense of sweat?
- The past tense of sweat is sweated or sweat.
- What is the past participle of sweat?
- The past participle of sweat is sweated or sweat.
- Is sweat a regular or irregular verb?
- Sweat is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sweat (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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