Definition of work up a sweat
- After a few minutes of exercise, we had worked up a sweat.
: to perform work or fulfill duties regularly for wages or salary
: to perform or carry through a task requiring sustained effort or continuous repeated operations
: to exert oneself physically or mentally especially in sustained effort for a purpose or under compulsion or necessity
: activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something:
: activity that a person engages in regularly to earn a livelihood
: a specific task, duty, function, or assignment often being a part or phase of some larger activity
: suitable or styled for wear while working
: used for work
: involving or engaged in work
: in or into a higher position or level
: from beneath the ground or water to the surface
: from below the horizon
: risen above the horizon
: standing
: being out of bed
used as a function word to indicate motion to or toward or situation at a higher point of
: up into or in the
: in a direction regarded as being toward or near the upper end or part of
: one in a high or advantageous position
: an upward slope
: a period or state of prosperity or success
: to rise from a lying or sitting position
: to move upward : ascend
used with and and another verb to indicate that the action of the following verb was either surprisingly or abruptly initiated
: to excrete moisture in visible quantities through the openings of the sweat glands : perspire
: to labor or exert oneself so as to cause perspiration
: to emit or exude moisture
: hard work : drudgery
: the fluid excreted from the sweat glands of the skin : perspiration
: moisture issuing from or gathering in drops on a surface
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