<p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>To perspire, especially freely or profusely</li><li>To exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap or cheese</li><li>To gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation</li><li>(Of moisture or liquid) To ooze or be exuded</li><li>Informal: To work hard</li><li>Informal: To experience distress, as from anxiety</li><li>(Of tobacco) To ferment</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>To excrete (perspiration, moisture, etc.) through the pores of the skin</li><li>To exude in drops or small particles</li><li>To send forth or get rid of with or like perspiration (often followed by out or off)</li><li>To wet or stain with perspiration</li><li>To cause (a person, a horse, etc.) to perspire</li><li>To cause to exude moisture, especially as a step in an industrial drying process (e.g., to sweat wood)</li><li>To earn, produce, or obtain (a result, promotion, compliment, etc.) by hard work</li><li>To cause to lose (weight) as by perspiring or hard work</li><li>To cause, force, or bring pressure on (a person, an animal, etc.) to work hard</li><li>To employ (workers) at low wages, for long hours, or under other unfavorable conditions</li><li>To labor with meticulous care over</li><li>Slang: To obtain or extort (money) from someone</li><li>Slang: To subject to severe questioning; give the third degree to</li><li>Metallurgy: To heat (an alloy) in order to remove a constituent melting at a lower temperature than the alloy as a whole</li><li>To heat (solder or the like) to melting</li><li>To join (metal objects) by heating and pressing together, usually with solder</li><li>To remove bits of metal from (gold coins) by shaking them against one another, as in a bag</li><li>To cause (tobacco or cocoa) to ferment</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The process of sweating or perspiring</li><li>That which is secreted from sweat glands; perspiration</li><li>A state or a period of sweating</li><li>Hard work</li><li>Informal: A state of anxiety or impatience</li><li>A process of inducing sweating or perspiration, or of being sweated, as in medical treatment</li><li>Moisture exuded from something or gathered on a surface</li><li>An exuding of moisture, as by a substance</li><li>An inducing of such exudation, as in some industrial process</li><li>A run given to a horse for exercise, as before a race</li><li>Sweats, informal: Sweatpants, sweatshirts, sweat suits, or the like</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective (Informal):</strong></p><ul><li>(Of clothes) Made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity</li><li>Made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes (e.g., sweat dresses)</li><li>Of, for, or associated with such clothes (e.g., the sweat look in sportswear)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase (Informal):</strong></p><ul><li>To await anxiously the outcome of; endure apprehensively (e.g., The accused sweated out the jury's deliberation)</li><li>To work arduously at or toward (e.g., The director sweated out a camera angle with the cinematographer)</li></ul>