Synonyms of sweating

sweating

verb

present participle of sweat

1

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

spent the afternoon sweating over her tax returns

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• working
• toiling
• trying
• endeavoring
• tugging
• slaving
• hustling
• humping
• plowing
• grubbing
• straining
• slogging
• digging (away)
• plugging
• drudging
• plodding
• banging away
• pegging (away)
• moiling
• travailing
• fagging
• sweating blood
• exercising
• beavering (away)
• scratching
• applying (oneself)
• buckling (down)
• exerting
• attacking
• hammering (away)
• driving
• wading
• pitching in
• overworking
• trudging
• digging in
• overexerting
• essaying
• scrabbling
• grinding (out)
• knuckling down
• eking out
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• slackening
• chilling
• lounging
• idling
• easing (up)
• loafing
• resting
• hanging (around or out)
• letting up
• shirking
• lazing
• bumming
• dallying
• lolling
• relaxing
• basking
• hacking (around)
• playing
• hanging
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• unwinding
• reposing
• dillydallying
• goldbricking
• trifling
• footling
• dabbling
• vegging out
• doodling
• fooling around
• messing around
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• pottering (around)
• hanging about
• monkeying (around)
• fribbling

2

as in worrying

to experience concern or anxiety

don't sweat over getting the application in a day late, as it probably doesn't matter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• worrying
• fretting
• fearing
• stressing
• stewing
• bothering
• troubling
• fussing
• caring a hang
• sweating blood
• agonizing
• pining
• giving a hang
• longing
• yearning
• chafing
• despairing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• taking
• sustaining
• enduring
• tolerating
• bearing
• sticking out
• abiding
• stomaching

3

as in dripping

to flow forth slowly through small openings

the oil coat may sweat through this varnish

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dripping
• weeping
• flowing
• bleeding
• seeping
• oozing
• exuding
• percolating
• straining
• transuding
• trickling
• dribbling
• emanating
• emitting
• venting
• giving off
• springing
• discharging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouring
• streaming
• flooding
• surging
• gushing

4

as in interrogating

slang to put a series of questions to

the narcotics squad tried sweating the mule, but he was genuinely clueless about the inner workings of the drug operation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• interrogating
• examining
• questioning
• pumping
• grilling
• quizzing
• catechizing
• querying
• picking the brains of
• giving the third degree to
• debriefing
• harassing
• pestering
• cross-examining
• annoying
• hounding
• cross-questioning
• canvassing
• canvasing
• polling