Synonyms for sweat

Most common

effort · elbow grease · toil · exertion · swither · perspiration · exudation · diaphoresis

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

2. n. 2

   The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.

   Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.

3. v. 1

   To work hard.

   I've been sweating over my essay all day.

4. v. 2

   To worry.

Related words

Word family

sweat-cloth sweatlord sweatsuit sweaty sweater

Phrases

sweat rash sweat blood sweat bullets sweat gland fetid sweat old sweat sweat hole sweat lodge

Forms

Plural

sweats → toils, exertions, labors, efforts…

Past participle

sweated
e.g. sweated → perspired, sudated, fretted, worried…

Example sentences

• effort A little more effort, and you will get on in life.
• toil Toil and worry caused his health to break down.
• exertion After much exertion, he was exhausted.
• perspiration Another, less polite, word for perspiration is sweat.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

stew¹, fret¹, toil¹, slog¹, ooze¹

5 letters

labor², worry², slave¹, bleed¹, exude², sudor

6 letters

effort², labour², lather², drudge¹, sudate

7 letters

soldier², travail², swither

8 letters

exertion³, perspire²

9 letters

transpire³, exudation, sweatlord

11 letters

diaphoresis

12 letters

perspiration⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

sueur

Italiano

sudore

Español

sudor

Deutsch

Schweiß

Català

suor