"break a sweat" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-break a sweat.ogg [Australia] Forms: breaks a sweat [present, singular, third-person], breaking a sweat [participle, present], broke a sweat [past], broken a sweat [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> a sweat}} break a sweat (third-person singular simple present breaks a sweat, present participle breaking a sweat, simple past broke a sweat, past participle broken a sweat)
  1. To start sweating. Translations (to start sweating): քրտնել (kʿrtnel) (Armenian), 出汗 (chūhàn) (Chinese Mandarin), zpotit se (Czech), tulla hikeen (Finnish), se mettre à transpirer (French), commencer à transpirer (French), ins Schwitzen kommen (German), 汗をかく (ase o kaku) (alt: あせをかく) (Japanese), napocić się [perfective] (Polish), começar a suar (Portuguese), вспоте́ть (vspotétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), comenzar a sudar (Spanish), empezar a sudar (Spanish), đổ mồ hôi (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-break_a_sweat-en-verb-hHnmF5NZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of English predicates: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 87 13 Disambiguation of 'to start sweating': 99 1
  2. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To put effort into something. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to put effort into something): ջանք թափել (ǰankʿ tʿapʿel) (Armenian), মাথার ঘাম পায়ে ফেলা (mathar gham paẏe phela) (Bengali), zpotit se (Czech), er flink voor werken (Dutch), tulla hikeen (Finnish), sans broncher (english: without ...) (French), sans sourciller (english: without ...) (French), sich ins Zeug legen (German), ins Schwitzen kommen (German), 费劲 (fèijìn) (Mandarin), napocić się [perfective] (Polish), esforçar-se (Portuguese), приложи́ть уси́лия (priložítʹ usílija) [perfective] (Russian), пошевели́ть па́льцем (poševelítʹ pálʹcem) (Russian), sudar la gota gorda (Spanish), ter dökmek (Turkish), đổ mồ hôi (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-break_a_sweat-en-verb-ZR2PbhX4 Categories (other): English negative polarity items, English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 52 48 Disambiguation of 'to put effort into something': 1 99

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.