sweat
US: /ˈswɛt/
UK: /swˈɛt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
sweat /swet/- danh từ
- mồ hôi
- wet with sweat: ướt đẫm mồ hôi
- by the sweat of one's brow: bằng mồ hôi nước mắt của mình
- " Mồ hôi" (giọt nước đọng trên cửa kính, trên tường...)
- sự ra mồ hôi; sự làm đổ mồ hôi
- nightly sweats: sự ra mồ hôi trộm
- a sweat will do him good: cứ xông cho ra mồ hôi là anh ấy khỏi
- công việc vất vả, việc khó nhọc
- he cannot stand the sweat of it: anh ta không chịu được vất vả
- sự tập luyện (cho ngựa trước cuộc thi...)
- (thông tục) sự lo ngại, sự lo lắng
- to be in a sweat: lo lắng
- old sweat
- (từ lóng) lính già
- mồ hôi
- nội động từ
- đổ mồ hôi, toát mồ hôi
- úa ra, rỉ ra (như mồ hôi)
- làm việc vất vả, làm việc mệt nhọc
- bán sức lao động (lấy đồng lương rẻ mạt)
- sợ hãi, hối hận
- he shall sweat for it: anh ta sẽ hối hận về việc đó
- ngoại động từ
- chảy (mồ hôi...), toát (mồ hôi...)
- làm (ai) đổ mồ hôi; làm (áo...) ướt đẫm mồ hôi
- lau mồ hôi (cho ngựa)
- ốp (công nhân) làm đổ mồ hôi sôi nước mắt; bóc lột
- ủ (thuốc lá)
- hàn (kim loại)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) tra tấn (ai) để bắt khai
- to sweat out
- xông cho ra mồ hôi để khỏi (cảm...)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) lo lắng đợi chờ (cái gì); sốt ruột đợi chờ (cái gì...)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) đứng chờ cho hết (một hàng dài...)
- to sweat blood
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) làm đổ mồ hôi sôi nước mắt
- sốt ruột, lo lắng, bồn chồn e ngại
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
liquid on skin
1 [U] drops of liquid that appear on the surface of your skin when you are hot, ill/sick or afraid
Synonym: 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 -
2 [usually sing.] 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 -
hard work
3 [U] 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 (sweats) [pl.] (informal, especially AmE) a SWEATSUIT or SWEATPANTS: I hung around the house all day in my sweats.
Idioms: be / get in a sweat (about sth) to be/become anxious or frightened about sth
no sweat (spoken) used to tell sb that sth is not difficult or a problem when they thank you or ask you to do sth: 'Thanks for everything.' 'Hey, no sweat!'
more at BLOOD n.
+ verb
produce liquid on skin / surface
1 when you sweat, drops of liquid appear on the surface of your skin, for example when you are hot, ill/sick or afraid
Synonym: PERSPIRE
[V] to sweat heavily + The palms of his hands began to sweat. + [VN] He was sweating buckets (= a lot).
2 [V] 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 [V] ~ (over sth) to work hard at sth: Are you still sweating over that report?
worry
4 [V] (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 [VN, V] (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
Idioms: sweat blood (informal) to work very hard: I sweated blood to get everything ready in time.
don't sweat it (AmE, spoken) used to tell sb to stop worrying about sth: 'I'm sure he'll find out.' 'Don't sweat it-no one's going to tell him.'
don't sweat the small stuff (AmE, spoken) used to tell sb not to worry about small details or unimportant things
more at GUT n.
Phrasal Verbs: sweat sth<->off to lose weight by doing a lot of hard exercise to make yourself sweat
sweat it out (informal) to be waiting for sth difficult or unpleasant to end, and be feeling anxious about it: It's just a case of sweating it out until the results are announced.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 perspire, glow:
That workout made me sweat.
2 Often, sweat out. worry, be anxious, agonize, anguish, bite (one's) nails, be on pins and needles, fret, fuss, stew, torture or torment oneself, lose sleep (over), Colloq sweat blood, be in a tizzy, US sweat bullets:
The professors really like to make students sweat, don't they? Fiona is sweating it out till the results are posted.
3 slave (away), labour, drudge, grind, toil and moil, slog, work like a Trojan or a horse, Slang Brit swot or swat:
I sweat over a hot stove all day while you're out and about town.
4 ooze, exude, squeeze out, transude:
When a boy, he believed that dew came from flowers sweating water.
n.
5 perspiration, Technical diaphoresis, sudor:
In addition to body moisture, salt and other minerals are lost in sweat.
6 (hard) work, labour, laboriousness, grind, toil, drudgery, slogging, sweating, Slang Brit swotting or swatting:
Nothing worthwhile is gained without some sweat.
7 state of confusion or upset or excitement or distraction or agitation or anxiety or distress or worry; pother, Colloq dither, tizzy, lather:
Henry has really worked himself up into a sweat over this problem.
8 No sweat! No problem!, Don't worry!, Everything is taken care of!, All is well!, That presents no difficulty!:
When asked to change a flat tyre, the stranger's response was, 'No sweat!'
Collocation
ADJ.
heavy | fine, light | clammy
My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.
| cold | stale
The room smelled of stale sweat.
| good
We worked up a good sweat carrying the boxes outside.
QUANT.
bead, drop, trickle
VERB + SWEAT
break into, break out in/into
She broke out in a cold sweat when she saw the spider.
| work up | wake (up) in | bring sb out in | be bathed/covered/drenched/soaked in, be beaded/streaming with, be dripping (with), be slippery/wet with, glisten with
The workmen were streaming with sweat. His forehead was dripping sweat.
| mop, wipe
He mopped the sweat from his brow.
SWEAT + VERB
appear, break out
His hands trembled and sweat broke out all over his body.
| glisten, stand out
sweat glistening on her forehead Sweat stood out on his shoulders.
| bead sth, drip/pour/run from/into/off sth, run/trickle down sth
Sweat beaded her face. Sweat was running down his back.
| soak sth
SWEAT + NOUN
gland
PREP.
in a ~
She woke up in a cold sweat.
ADV.
freely, heavily, a lot, profusely | slightly | off
He's trying to sweat off a few pounds in the gym.
VERB + SWEAT
begin to | make sb
The heat was making us sweat.
PREP.
from
We were sweating profusely from the exertion of moving the furniture.
| with
He awoke with a pounding heart, sweating with fear.
PHRASES
sweat buckets, sweat like a pig
(both informal) After two hours of digging he was sweating like a pig.
Concise dictionary
sweats|sweated|sweatingswetnoun
+salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
+agitation resulting from active worry
+condensation of moisture on a cold surface
+use of physical or mental energy; hard work
verb
+excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
