different between unsweat vs sweat
unsweat
English
Etymology
un- +? sweat
Verb
unsweat (third-person singular simple present unsweats, present participle unsweating, simple past and past participle unsweated)
- (transitive) To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.
Anagrams
- unwaste
unsweat From the web:
sweat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?t, IPA(key): /sw?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English sw?t, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swait?, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish ??????? (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian ????? (xw?d, “moist, fresh”), Sanskrit ????? (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B sy?-, and Albanian djersë.
Noun
sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)
- 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.
- Synonym: perspiration
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- (historical) The sweating sickness.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
- When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- (uncountable) Hard work; toil.
Synonyms
- sudor
Derived terms
Descendants
- Torres Strait Creole: swet
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sweten, from Old English sw?tan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijan? (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.
Verb
sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past and past participle sweated or sweat)
- (intransitive) To emit sweat.
- Synonym: perspire
- (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To cause to perspire.
- To cause to perspire.
- (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
- Synonyms: slave, slog
- (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- (intransitive, informal) To worry.
- Synonyms: fret, worry
- (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something). [from 20th c.]
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- I was sipping a third, but I had no kind of buzz on; apparently I had sweat the beer out as rapidly as I drank it.
- (intransitive) To emit moisture.
- (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- (transitive, slang) To stress out.
- (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
- 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
- 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
- (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- (transitive) To scrape the sweat from (a horse).
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- shvitz
Anagrams
- Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sweatshirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swit/
Noun
sweat m (plural sweats)
- sweatshirt
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