Usually means: Body's response to heat, exercise.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word sweat:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweat: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweat, sweat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweat, sweat: Wordnik
  8. sweat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sweat, sweat: Wiktionary
  10. sweat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweat: Dictionary.com
  14. sweat (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sweat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SWEAT (TV series), SWEAT (hypothesis), Sweat (A La La La La Long), Sweat (Australian TV series), Sweat (Kool & the Gang album), Sweat (Nelly album), Sweat (Snoop Dogg song), Sweat (The All-American Rejects), Sweat (The System album), Sweat (disambiguation), Sweat (film), Sweat (novel), Sweat (play), Sweat (short story), Sweat (song), Sweat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sweat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sweat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sweat: Rhymezone
  20. sweat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sweat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SWEAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Sweat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. sweat: FreeDictionary.org
  25. sweat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. sweat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. sweat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweat: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sweat: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. sweat: Medical dictionary
  7. Sweat: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SWEAT: Acronym Finder
  3. sweat: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweat, sweat, sweat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweat: Dan's Poker

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sweated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
noun:  (figurative) Hard work; toil.
noun:  (figurative) Moisture issuing from any substance.
noun:  A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
noun:  (historical) The sweating sickness.
noun:  (British, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
noun:  (video games, slang) An extremely or excessively competitive player.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit sweat.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
verb:  To cause to perspire.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
verb:  (video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To worry.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To worry about (something).
verb:  (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit moisture.
verb:  (intransitive) To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
verb:  (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To stress out, to put under pressure.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
verb:  (transitive) To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
noun:  A surname.

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