Meaning of sweat In English

• 0 the clear, salty liquid that you pass through your skin:

  • The dancers were dripping with/pouring with sweat after a morning's rehearsal.

  • By the time we'd climbed to the top of the hill, we were covered in sweat.

  • She wiped the beads (= drops) of sweat from her forehead.

  • figurative The cathedral was built by human toil and sweat (= effort).

• 1 a loose top and trousers, worn either by people who are training for a sport or exercising, or as informal clothing

• 2 to pass sweat through the skin because you are hot, ill, or frightened:

  • It was so hot when we arrived in Tripoli that we started to sweat as soon as we got off the plane.

  • The prisoners were sweating with fear.

  • informal I was so afraid, I was sweating like a pig (= sweating a lot).

  • The walls in older houses sometimes sweat with damp.

• 3 to work very hard to achieve something:

  • Volunteers sweated to get the room ready for the dance.

• 4 to worry about something:

  • He is a great boss, focused on managing the big picture and rarely sweating the details.

  • Can't make the gig? Don't sweat it; you'll have plenty more chances.

  • I'm never going to sweat the small stuff again. Now I see what's important.

  • Be positive, don't sweat the small stuff, stop doing things you don't like.

• 5 to excrete a salty, colorless liquid through the skin, esp. when you are hot or frightened:

  • He was sweating profusely.

  • The soda cans sweat in this humidity.

  • We have to sweat about money because we don’t have much of it.

• 6 the salty, colorless liquid that you excrete through your skin:

  • beads of sweat

  • They lived off the sweat and toil of others.