sweated

[ swet-id ]

/ ˈswɛt ɪd /

Save This Word!

adjective

made by underpaid workers.

underpaid and overworked.

having poor working conditions.

QUIZ

QUIZ YOURSELF ON "IS" VS. "ARE"

"Is" it time for a new quiz? "Are" you ready? Then prove your excellent skills on using "is" vs. "are."

Question 1 of 7

IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?

have

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of sweated

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 for def. 2; sweat + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM sweated

un·sweat·ed, adjective

Words nearby sweated

sweatband, sweat bee, sweat blood, sweatbox, sweat bullets, sweated, sweat equity, sweater, sweatercoat, sweater girl, sweat gland

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use sweated in a sentence

But oh, God, those hours while I sweated it out until I saw my mother!
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview|Alex Belth|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Privately, he had huge inhibitions about hustling, but he fought them down and sweated.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers|Nik Cohn|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Every time we drove the two hours there, we sweated bullets for fear of being discovered.
A Brigham Young University Professor’s Escape from Mormonism|Lynn K. Wilder|October 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
While we skulked in the shadows, they had studied and sweated and changed the face of their world.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks|Max Brooks|January 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Manilla tobacco usually burns well, if the leaf is of good quality and well sweated, still it is known as a non-burning tobacco.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Not like New York, that never expresses an opinion until a sort of consensus has sweated up to the surface.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
If I'd only known all about it, I would have sweated to death on the hottest day of the summer rather than not have obliged him.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880|Various
Strife and hard work had sweated all the fat from his bones.
Hunters Out of Space|Joseph Everidge Kelleam
Bart lay still and sweated, trying to ease his uncomfortable position, unable to move so much as a finger.
The Colors of Space|Marion Zimmer Bradley

British Dictionary definitions for sweated

sweated

/ (ˈswɛtɪd) /

adjective

made by exploited laboursweated goods

(of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

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

sweated

Origin of sweated

OTHER WORDS FROM sweated

Words nearby sweated

Words related to sweated

How to use sweated in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for sweated