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How to spell sweat
What it means: To excrete salty fluid through the skin.
In a sentence: When I run really fast, I start to sweat.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as sweatd or swet.
Same family: sweating, sweaty, cold sweat, perspire, perspiration. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "sweat" comes from Old English "swāt," meaning "perspiration" or "labor," and is related to similar words in German and Dutch. Historically, people also used "sweat" to mean working very hard, which is why we still say we "sweat" over a test or a project.
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