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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
sweat
sweat [sweat sweats sweated sweating] noun, verb BrE [swet] NAmE [swet]
noun
LIQUID ON SKIN
1. uncountable drops of liquid that appear on the surface of your skin when you are hot, ill/sick or afraid
Syn: ↑perspiration
•beads of sweat
• She wiped the sweat from her face.
• By the end of the match, the sweat was pouring off him.
•Their bodies were soaked in sweat.
see also ↑sweaty
2. usually singular the state of being covered with sweat
• I woke up in a sweat.
• She completed the routine without even working up a sweat.
•He breaks out in a sweat just at the thought of flying.
•He started having night sweats.
see also ↑cold sweat
HARD WORK
3. uncountable hard work or effort: (informal)Growing your own vegetables sounds like a lot of sweat.
• (literary)She achieved success by the sweat of her brow (= by working very hard).
CLOTHES
4. sweatsplural (informal, especially NAmE)a ↑sweatsuit or ↑sweatpants
•I hung around the house all day in my sweats.
more at blood, sweat and tears at ↑blood n.
Word Origin:
Old English swāt (noun), swǣtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zweet and German Schweiss, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sudor.
Example Bank:
•He mopped the sweat from his brow.
•He was dripping with sweat.
•His forehead was dripping sweat.
•His hands trembled and sweat broke out all over his body.
•My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.
•She beat me without even breaking (a) sweat.
•She broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the spider.
•She woke up in a cold sweat.
•Sweat beaded her face.
•Sweat glistened on her forehead.
•Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
•Sweat was running down his back.
•The room smelled of stale sweat.
•The workmen were bathed in sweat.
•The workmen were streaming with sweat.
•We worked up a good sweat carrying the boxes outside.
•A lot of sweat has gone into producing this.
•She achieved success by the sweat of her brow.
•We've put blood, sweat and tears into this campaign.
•Well, he could answer that one straight off, no sweat!
Idioms: ↑break sweat ▪ ↑don't sweat it ▪ ↑don't sweat the small stuff ▪ in a sweat ▪ ↑no sweat ▪ ↑sweat blood
Derived: ↑sweat it out ▪ ↑sweat something off
verb
PRODUCE LIQUID ON SKIN/SURFACE
1. intransitive, transitive when you sweat, drops of liquid appear on the surface of your skin, for example when you are hot, ill/sick or afraid
Syn: ↑perspire
•to sweat heavily
• The palms of his hands began to sweat.
•~ sth He was sweating buckets (= a lot).
2. intransitive if sth sweats, the liquid that is contained in it appears on its surface
•The cheese was beginning to sweat.
•The walls will continue to sweat until the plaster is completely dry.
WORK HARD
3. intransitive ~ (over sth) to work hard at sth
•Are you still sweating over that report?
WORRY
4. intransitive (informal)to worry or feel anxious about sth
•They really made me sweat during the interview.
•Even though she'd made her decision, she let them sweat for another week.
HEAT FOOD
5. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (BrE)if you sweat meat or vegetables or let them sweat, you heat them slowly with a little fat in a pan that is covered with a lid
more at slog/sweat/work your guts out at ↑gut n.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Old English swāt (noun), swǣtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zweet and German Schweiss, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sudor.
Example Bank:
•After two hours of digging he was sweating like a pig.
•He awoke with a pounding heart, sweating with fear.
•He's trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.
•The heat was making us sweat.
•We were sweating profusely from the exertion of moving the furniture.
•You can sweat out toxins in the sauna.
•Don't sweat it. We'll be fine.
•Oh, let them sweat a bit.
See also: ↑break a sweat
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