different between sweated vs sweating

English

Verb

sweated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sweat

Adjective

sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)

1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     “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.”

   • 1920, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III

     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 […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English sweting, swetinge, equivalent to sweat +? -ing (gerund ending).

Noun

sweating (countable and uncountable, plural sweatings)

1. The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
   • 1870, Timothy Holmes, A System of Surgery: Theoretical and Practical (volume 1, page 288)

     In this early stage there is generally a tendency to constipation of the bowels, and in the intervals between the sweatings the urine remains clear, though not abundant. In the second degree, the emaciation is more noticeable.
2. (botany) Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
3. (cooking) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

Synonyms

• perspiration

Translations

Verb

sweating

1. present participle of sweat

Adjective

sweating (comparative more sweating, superlative most sweating)

1. Giving off sweat.

   Synonyms: (dated) asweat, sudorific, sudoriferous, sweaty

Derived terms

• sweating industry
• sweating iron

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