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- save your sweat: no one will appreciate your efforts anyway
Synonyms for sweat
- effort,
- elbow grease,
- exertion,
- expenditure,
- labor,
- pains,
- trouble,
- while,
- work
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- it took years of sweat to bring the farm to the point where it is now
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- my boss told me not to get in a sweat about the accident—she'd make sure I wasn't blamed for it
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- he always ends up in a sweat during tax season
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- alarm
- (also alarum),
- hand-wringing,
- panic
sweat
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of sweat (Entry 2 of 2)
- spent the afternoon sweating over her tax returns
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- bum,
- chill,
- dally,
- dillydally,
- footle,
- goldbrick,
- goof (off),
- hack (around),
- hang (around or out),
- idle,
- laze,
- loaf,
- lounge,
- shirk,
- slack (off),
- veg out
- dabble,
- doodle,
- fool around,
- fribble,
- goof (around),
- hang,
- hang about
- [British],
- mess around,
- monkey (around),
- play,
- potter (around),
- putter (around),
- trifle
- don't sweat over getting the application in a day late, as it probably doesn't matter
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- the oil coat may sweat through this varnish
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- the narcotics squad tried sweating the mule, but he was genuinely clueless about the inner workings of the drug operation
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