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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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3

as in dripping

to flow forth slowly through small openings

the oil coat may sweat through this varnish

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouring
• streaming
• flooding
• surging
• gushing

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