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sweating it out

sweating it out is the present participle and gerund of sweat it out.

Meaning of sweat it out

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial) To do hard physical exercise or work, and sweat as a result.
    • In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
      At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines1975, Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
  2. (colloquial) To wait or endure anxiously.

Questions about sweating it out

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

Words near sweating it out in the dictionary

  1. sweating bricks
  2. sweating buckets
  3. sweating bullets
  4. sweating iron
  5. sweating irons
  6. sweating it out
  7. sweating like a hooker in church
  8. sweating like a horse
  9. sweating like a nigger
  10. sweating like a nigger on election day
  11. sweating like a whore in church

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