sweat
/swet/noun
उच्चारण स्वेट
पसीना; मेहनत
Basic word
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[U, C]
drops of liquid that appear on the surface of your skin when you are hot, ill or afraid; (informal) hard work or effort
पसीना; मेहनत
- dripping with sweat
- blood, sweat and tears
- Sweat ran down his face as he finished the marathon.
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- She wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief.
- Success in this field takes a lot of sweat and patience.
Synonyms perspiration moisture toil labour effort
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[I, T]
when you sweat, drops of liquid appear on the surface of your skin; to be worried or nervous about something; to work hard at something
पसीना आना; चिंता करना; मेहनत करना
- He was sweating in the heat.
- Don't sweat the small stuff.
- Runners sweat a lot in the humid weather of Mumbai.
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- He was sweating with fear before his viva.
- I sweated over the answer for an hour and still got it wrong.
◇Word family
§Grammar and usage
Sweat, /swet/ (rhymes with wet; not 'sweet').
Sweat, /swet/ (wet से तुकांत; 'sweet' नहीं)।
Formal word: perspiration (perspire).
औपचारिक शब्द perspiration (perspire) है।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
No sweat (informal, no problem; easy), by the sweat of your brow (by hard work), in a cold sweat (very frightened), blood, sweat and tears (very hard work), sweat it out (continue doing something difficult until the end; wait anxiously), don't sweat the small stuff (don't worry about small things), sweat blood (work extremely hard).
Idioms बहुत पूछे जाते हैं: no sweat (अनौपचारिक, कोई बात नहीं; आसान), by the sweat of your brow (कड़ी मेहनत से, ख़ून-पसीने से), in a cold sweat (बहुत डरा हुआ), blood, sweat and tears (बहुत कड़ी मेहनत), sweat it out (कठिन काम अंत तक जारी रखना; उत्सुकता से प्रतीक्षा करना), don't sweat the small stuff (छोटी बातों की चिंता मत करो), sweat blood (अत्यधिक मेहनत करना)।
Sweatshop (a factory where workers are paid very little and work in poor conditions).
Collocation 'sweatshop' (ऐसा कारख़ाना जहाँ मज़दूरों को बहुत कम वेतन मिलता है और काम की स्थितियाँ ख़राब होती हैं)।
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General knowledge
Science: sweating cools the body by evaporation; sweat glands are in the skin.
विज्ञान में पसीना वाष्पीकरण द्वारा शरीर को ठंडा करता है; स्वेद ग्रंथियाँ त्वचा में होती हैं।