Sweared vs Sweating - What's the difference?
sweared | sweating |
(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.
the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
As verbs the difference between sweared and sweating
is that sweared is (nonstandard) (swear) while sweating is .As a noun sweating is
the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.As an adjective sweating is
of or relating to one who is.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
* See alsoDerived terms
* 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)sweating
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(wikipedia sweating)Noun
- Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).