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[ swet-id ] / ˈswɛt ɪd /
adjectivemade by underpaid workers. underpaid and overworked. having poor working conditions. Origin of sweated1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 for def. 2; sweat + -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM sweatedun·sweat·ed, adjectiveWords nearby sweatedsweatband, sweat bee, sweat blood, sweatbox, sweat bullets, sweated, sweat equity, sweater, sweatercoat, sweater girl, sweat gland Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sweatedBut 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
Every inch that could be sweated out of them had been gained. Mavericks|William MacLeod Raine It is driven by an aged and sweated driver, and the burning garbage of its furnace distils a choking reek into the air. Anticipations|Herbert George Wells Kele asked Sedit to sing for his sons while they danced and sweated. Creation Myths of Primitive America|Jeremiah Curtin His burning eyes rolled over the Mowbray, and again and again he pulled his hair with hands that sweated like tallow. The Last Entry|William Clark Russell I saw distinctly the confusion of M. le Duc de Berry, and sweated at it; but what could be done? The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete|Duc de Saint-Simon
British Dictionary definitions for sweated
adjectivemade 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 Words related to sweatedsteam, perspiration, wilt, swelter, glow, toil, excretion, exudation, transudation, sudor, diaphoresis, chore, task, travail, work, slavery, labor, drudgery, moil, grind |