sweat /ˈswɛt/
 汗,出汗,水珠,焦急(vi.)出汗,滲出,冒出水氣,結水珠,煩惱,懊惱(vt.)使出汗;[口]為(某事)擔心;為(某事)憂慮


 sweat /ˈswɛt/ 不及物動詞
 汗


 Sweat n.
 1. Physiol. The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.   --Gen. iii. 19.
 2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
 3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
 4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.]
 5. Man. A short run by a race horse in exercise.
 Sweat box Naut., a small closet in which refractory men are confined.
 Sweat glands Anat., sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.

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 Sweat v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat ); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.]
 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
    He 'd have the poets sweat.   --Waller.
 3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.


 Sweat, v. t.
 1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
 2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
    It made her not a drop for sweat.   --Chaucer.
    With exercise she sweat ill humors out.   --Dryden.
 3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
 4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.]
 To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
    The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by =\“sweating”, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.\=   --R. Cobden.


 sweat
      n 1: salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his
           brow" [syn: perspiration, sudor]
      2: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a
         stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew,
          lather, swither]
      3: condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold
         glasses were streaked with sweat"
      4: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A
         for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
          effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail]
      v : excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin;
          "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: sudate, perspire]