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 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 Corn fields sweating their way into sweetness could make the air hotter and more humid. — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026 Brad Idzik’s earliest football memories were sweating in the metal bleachers at the old Tampa Stadium when his dad was the Buccaneers’ coordinator of football administration. — Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026 The upper features mesh paneling which creates airflow pockets to keep your feet from sweating during workouts, too. — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 6 Sep. 2026 Adam had been sweating in the overheated house for days, stressing his heart. — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026

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McNeely’s portrait of a laboring mother, swathed in glowing fields of chartreuse, outshines (again, literally) art history’s greats.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
In line with the great tech selloff over AI spending fears, Capgemini’s share price has been laboring.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of laboring

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With early voting already underway, a question worrying some voters is what role — if any — immigration enforcement officers might have at polling places through Election Day.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
Cloud computing let businesses add capacity without worrying much about what sat behind it.

— Anthony Milewski, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of worrying

Verb

In a twist on tailoring, jackets dripping with fringe made their way down the runway at Monse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Zendaya, who was a nominee for her powerful performance on the HBO drama Euphoria, wore a glamorous Prada gown dripping with crystals that was styled by Law Roach.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of dripping

Verb

These beliefs were not inevitable; they were constructed through repetition, strategic messaging, and, most important, media coverage that echoed the administration’s line rather than interrogating it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
The second part, though, is that AI provides opportunities for CEOs to have a virtual board of directors, a new person on the team, and a way of interrogating their own thinking which may reduce the loneliness of being a CEO.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of interrogating

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In many such cases, Pennington says, parents will want to give each child an equal inheritance to be fair, but also worry about how the struggling child will fare upon receiving a sudden inheritance.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Each episode, the brutally honest Ramsay comes in to help the struggling restaurant fix its problems or its negative image, and in turn the restaurants get publicity from being on a national television show.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 1 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

Definition of weeping

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The death in a helicopter crash of Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, his wife and three others has reverberated across government and industry circles on the continent, as investigators began examining what caused the aircraft to go down.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Spacebound nuclear power The center plans to release a report in early 2027 examining how Canada could expand its position in space isotope production.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026