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sweat
Synonyms and Antonyms of sweat
- save your sweat: no one will appreciate your efforts anyway
effort, elbow grease, exertion, expenditure, labor, pains, trouble, while, work
- it took years of sweat to bring the farm to the point where it is now
- my boss told me not to get in a sweat about the accident—she'd make sure I wasn't blamed for it
alarm (also alarum), anguish, consternation, desperateness, desperation, discomfort, discomposure, dismay, distraction, distress, disturbance, edginess, franticness, hand-wringing, jitters, jumpiness, panic, tremor
angst, fearfulness, torment, upset, vexation
cold feet, doubt, dread, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, suspense, uncertainty
sweat
Synonyms and Antonyms of sweat
- spent the afternoon sweating over her tax returns
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out
bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind
dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
- donʼt sweat over getting the application in a day late, as it probably doesnʼt matter
- the oil coat may sweat through this varnish
- the narcotics squad tried sweating the mule, but he was genuinely clueless about the inner workings of the drug operation
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