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sweating blood

sweating blood is the present participle and gerund of sweat blood.

Meaning of sweat blood

Verb

sweat blood (third-person singular simple present sweats blood, present participle sweating blood, simple past and past participle sweated blood or sweat blood)

  1. (informal) To work very hard.
  2. (informal) To be extremely anxious.
    Synonyms:
    sweat bullets

Questions about sweating blood

What is sweating blood the present participle and gerund of?
Sweating blood is the present participle and gerund of sweat blood.

Words near sweating blood in the dictionary

  1. sweatiest
  2. sweatily
  3. sweatin'
  4. sweatiness
  5. sweating
  6. sweating blood
  7. sweating bricks
  8. sweating buckets
  9. sweating bullets
  10. sweating iron
  11. sweating irons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweating blood (page history and authors); sweat blood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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