Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweated

/swˈɛtɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables: sweat-ed
IPA: /swˈɛtɪd/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of sweat

adj

Characterized by sweatshop conditions.

Example Sentences

"“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.”"
"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 […]"

Inflected Forms

more sweated (comparative) most sweated (superlative)

Rhymes With

regretted indebted netted vetted pigmented fretted abetted petted silhouetted jetted whetted

Questions

How do you pronounce sweated?: The recorded pronunciation is /swˈɛtɪd/.
What does sweated mean?: simple past and past participle of sweat

How to pronounce sweated

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