Sweared vs Sweated - What's the difference?
sweared | sweated |
(nonstandard) (swear)
To take an oath.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
(lb) To use offensive language.
Heavy.
Top-heavy; too high.
Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
Niggardly.
A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
(sweat)
Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
* 1913 ,
*:“Do you like jennying?” he asked.
*:“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
*:“Is it sweated ?”
*:“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
* 1920 , Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy ,
As verbs the difference between sweared and sweated
is that sweared is past tense of swear while sweated is past tense of sweat.As an adjective sweated is
characterized by sweatshop conditions.sweared
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*swear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sweren, swerien, from (etyl) through Proto-Indo-European.Verb
Synonyms
* See alsoUsage notes
* In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
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* swear by * swear like a trooper * swear on a stack of Bibles * swear out * swear to God * swear wordEtymology 2
From the above verb, or from (etyl) sware, from (etyl) swaru, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) swer, swar, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)sweated
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades [...]