sweated
sweated is the simple past and past participle of sweat.
Meaning of sweat
Verb
sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past sweated or sweat, past participle sweated or sweat or (archaic) sweaten)
- To emit sweat.
- Synonyms:
- perspire
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To cause to perspire.
- His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
- To cause to perspire.
- To work hard.
- I've been sweating over my essay all day.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- to sweat a spendthrift
- Synonyms:
- bleed
Adjective
sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)
- Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
- “Do you like jennying?” he asked.
“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
“Is it sweated?”
“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC - So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]1920, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III
- “Do you like jennying?” he asked.
Forms of sweated
| comparative | more sweated |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sweated |
Phrases with sweated
- sweated off
- sweated out
- sweated blood
- sweated bricks
- sweated it out
- sweated buckets
- sweated bullets
- sweated like a pig
- sweated like a horse
- sweated like a nigger
- sweated one's guts out
- sweated the small stuff
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Questions about sweated
- What does sweated mean?
- Sweated means characterized by sweatshop conditions.
- What is sweated the simple past and past participle of?
- Sweated is the simple past and past participle of sweat.
- What part of speech is sweated?
- Sweated is an adjective.
Words near sweated in the dictionary
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