sweated
SaySWET-id/ˈswɛtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sweat. Use this form for something that already happened.
The workers sweated in the hot kitchen all afternoon.
By noon the runners had sweated through their shirts.
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- 2Made by workers who get very little pay and work long hours in bad conditions.
The cheap shirts were made with sweated labor in crowded workrooms.
Reformers fought against sweated work that paid almost nothing.
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sweated is a form of sweat
sweat, verb: To lose salty liquid through your skin when you are hot or work hard. Full entry
- Spelling
- sweat → sweated: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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