Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made under the sweating system: as, a sweated coat.
- Underpaid, as a shop-hand under the sweating system.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sweat .
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Examples
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For those of us eating the lamb at home there are many variations of what I call sweated lamb.
Barbara Probst Solomon: On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu 2009
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Now, at twenty-six, I was chapped and thoroughly sweated from the care of four children and the day-in day-out labor of the place.
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The hot poultices placed upon my feet and ankles threw me into a profuse perspiration, and my very active association of mad ideas convinced me that I was being "sweated" -- another police term which I had often seen in the newspapers.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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It gets poured underneath the mixture of well chopped steak and onions that have been sweated down on Carl’s large flat top griddle (“sweated” being the code word for “cooked in a way that allows it to become soaked in grease”).
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Some of those trades, much to our shame, in former years were known as sweated industries, but even there it is found that the workers, men and women alike, are coming gradually into the trades unions, and should they not be in the trades unions to any great extent they are to be reached by other ways and means which this committee has developed.
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As someone who "sweated" out his first presidential campaign in Ohio in the basement of the governor's mansion, he knows full well the national political importance of Ohio.
Jake Gilliland: Bill Clinton Hits Campaign Trail In Ohio Jake Gilliland 2010
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As someone who "sweated" out his first presidential campaign in Ohio in the basement of the governor's mansion, he knows full well the national political importance of Ohio.
Jake Gilliland: Bill Clinton Hits Campaign Trail In Ohio 2010
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He kind of sweated and got a little pale at that one, but he were game.
My War with the Army « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007
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Once again, as in the eighteenth century, Ireland would be penalised for being a poor and "sweated" country.
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English, French, and Boche shells, and last, but by no means least, he had "sweated" on a ring from one of Susan's plugs!
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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