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Sweared vs Sweated - What's the difference?

sweared | sweated |

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

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (swear)
  • Anagrams

    *

    swear

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sweren, swerien, from (etyl) through Proto-Indo-European.

    Verb

  • To take an oath.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Usage notes
    * In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * swear by * swear like a trooper * swear on a stack of Bibles * swear out * swear to God * swear word

    Etymology 2

    From the above verb, or from (etyl) sware, from (etyl) swaru, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A swearword.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) swer, swar, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
  • sweated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sweat)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 ,
  • 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 [...]