Sweat - sweet

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Don't fall into the error of typing sweat when you mean sweet.

  • Sweat (pronounced to rhyme with 'get' and 'let') may be either a noun or a verb. The general meaning is 'perspiration', the water (and salts) excreted through the skin as a reaction to excess heat or hard physical effort. It is often used figuratively to mean effort, as in the punishment of Adam for his Original Sin: "Thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy brow."
    • The verb 'to sweat' means 'to perspire'. Figuratively it can mean, as wll as 'to work hard'