SWEATING Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

sweating

verb

present participle of sweat

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort spent the afternoon sweating over her tax returns

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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

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as in dripping

to flow forth slowly through small openings the oil coat may sweat through this varnish

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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

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Recent Examples of sweating In heat, stomata tend to open to release water, essentially sweating. — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026 Bass began to thump from the other side of the wall, and, as if in a dream, the girls left one by one and returned sweating in the old familiar alchemy. — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026 Harvard Health recommends regular bathing, a strong deodorant or antiperspirant and plenty of water to offset fluid loss from sweating. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Harvard Health recommends bathing regularly, using a high-quality deodorant or antiperspirant, staying hydrated to offset fluid loss from sweating and talking to a doctor if a strange new scent lingers. — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2026 Rosenblatt said stop sweating the impact that Meta’s Muse and other AI agents shopping on behalf of people will have on Amazon. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026 Historically, the industry relied on evaporative cooling, essentially sweating away millions of gallons of water to reject heat into the atmosphere. — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 Regardless, Hali Borenstein, chief executive officer, isn’t sweating the short-term and is focused on continuing along the path that brought Reformation to Wall Street in the first place. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

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Strange, yes, but definitely more memorable than an accountant in green eyeshade laboring over the books.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
And workers have now spent over 1 million hours laboring on an infrastructure project whose price tag has surpassed $900 million.

— Robert Tann, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of laboring

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At least one copy fell into the hands of the Gestapo, which was hunting for Seghers and interrogating her associates.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
It was framed around these trials that were interrogating Founding Fathers, religious belief[s], and stuff like this.

— Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of interrogating

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But while most young people are struggling to land their first opportunity, some have jumped the line by building their own small businesses and startups—and young founders are now ramping up hiring even as companies across industries slow theirs.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The film includes flashbacks to his time in the war and features a parallel story about his young carer struggling to make ends meet.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of struggling

Verb

Ratings agencies and investors are fretting about leverage as the combined company enters a shifting media landscape with $80 billion in debt after one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in corporate history.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
Billy Joel doesn’t want anyone fretting too much over his health.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of fretting

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His parents were also sitting in the rear of the courtroom, his mother's eyes red from weeping.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
The most famous photograph of the early Second World War is of a Frenchman weeping at the sight of Nazi soldiers parading through the streets of Marseilles in 1940.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026