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View synonyms for sweat out

sweat out

verb

  1. to cure or lessen the effects of (a cold, respiratory infection, etc) by sweating
  2. informal.
    to endure (hardships) for a time (often in the phrase sweat it out )
  3. sweat one's guts out informal.
    to work extremely hard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Endure or await something anxiously, as in He sweated out that last final exam , or I don't know if I made the team—I'm still sweating it out . This idiom, often expanded to sweat it out , was first recorded in 1876.
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Example Sentences

But the overhead sun, whose direct rays were fairly boiling the sweat out of him, harshly corrected this impression.

They had put their shakoes aside and wrapped rags around their heads to keep the sweat out of their eyes.

He set down the receiver, shook the sweat out of his eyes, and sank on to a stool.

I can't even see one of these poetic creatures from a distance without breaking out into a cold sweat out of sheer anger.

When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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