2. To toil; to labor; to drudge.

He'd have the poets sweat.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

, v.t. swet. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exsude.

For him the rich Arabia sweats her gums.

1. To cause to emit moisture from the pores of the skin. His physicians attempted to sweat him by the most powerful sudorifics.

They sweat him profusely.