"sweat it out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sweats it out [present, singular, third-person], sweating it out [participle, present], sweated it out [participle, past], sweated it out [past], sweat it out [participle, past], sweat it out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|sweat<,,:sweat> it out}} sweat it out (third-person singular simple present sweats it out, present participle sweating it out, simple past and past participle sweated it out or sweat it out)
  1. (colloquial) To do hard physical exercise or work, and sweat as a result. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-sweat_it_out-en-verb-x13av045 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out), English terms with placeholder "it" Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 58 42
  2. (colloquial) To wait or endure anxiously. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-sweat_it_out-en-verb-t49BaV1f

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sweat it out meaning in English (1.9kB)

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