sweated
[ swet-id ]
/ ˈswɛt ɪd /
adjective
made by underpaid workers.
underpaid and overworked.
having poor working conditions.
Words nearby sweated
sweat pants, sweat sock, sweat suit, sweatband, sweatbox, sweated, sweater, sweater girl, sweatercoat, sweathouse, sweating sickness
OTHER WORDS FROM sweated
un·sweat·ed, adjectiveDefinition for sweated (2 of 2)
Origin of sweat
before 900; 1970–75 for def 6; (v.) Middle English sweten, Old English swǣtan to sweat, derivative of swāt (noun) (> obsolete English swote); (noun) Middle English, alteration of swote, influenced by the v.; cognate with Dutch zweet, German Schweiss, Old Norse sveiti, Sanskrit svedas; akin to Latin sūdor, Greek hidrṓs
OTHER WORDS FROM sweat
sweat·less, adjectivenon·sweat·ing, adjectiveun·sweat·ing, adjectivesynonym study for sweat
24. See perspiration.
historical usage of sweat
Sweat has a very distinguished ancestry. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root sweid-, swoid-, swid-. The suffixed form swoidos (a noun) appears in Germanic as swaitaz, regularly becoming swāt in Old English, Schweiss in German, and sveiti in Old Norse. The related form swoidōs- regularly becomes the noun sūdōr- (inflectional stem of sūdor ) in Latin, from which English derives sudorific “causing sweat” and sudoriparous “secreting sweat.” Greek, as is common, goes its own way and forms its noun from the variant root swid- extended with the suffix -ro- ( swidro- ) to form hidrṓs, from which English derives hidrosis (excessive production of sweat); the Greek form is made obscure by the cluster sw- becoming h-. The form swidro- becomes sviêdri in Latvian, a Baltic language that, like Lithuanian, is very resistant to change.
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British Dictionary definitions for sweated (1 of 2)
sweated
/ (ˈswɛtɪd) /
adjective
made by exploited laboursweated goods
(of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
British Dictionary definitions for sweated (2 of 2)
sweat
/ (swɛt) /
noun
verb sweats, sweating, sweat or sweated
Derived forms of sweat
sweatless, adjectiveWord Origin for sweat
Old English swætan to sweat, from swāt sweat; related to Old Saxon swēt, Old Norse sveiti, Old High German sweiz, Latin sūdor, Sanskrit svedas
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Medical definitions for sweated
sweat
[ swĕt ]
v.
To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
n.
The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
The process of sweating.
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Scientific definitions for sweated
sweat
[ swĕt ]
The salty liquid given off by sweat glands in the skin of mammals. As sweat evaporates, the skin cools, causing a reduction in body heat.
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Idioms and Phrases with sweated
sweat
In addition to the idioms beginning with sweat
- sweat blood
- sweat bullets
- sweat of one's brow
- sweat out
also see:
- by the sweat of one's brow
- in a cold sweat
- no problem (sweat)
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