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sweltering en · ADJ

Etymology

From swelter + -ing.

Meanings

1. (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky
   • The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

Deriveds

swelteringly

Relateds

balmy

Translations (19)

tr aşırı sıcak (hot and humid) · tr bunaltıcı (hot and humid) · cmn 闷热的 (hot and humid) · sv stekhet (hot and humid) · de drückend heiß (hot and humid) · eo sufoka (hot and humid) · es bochornoso (hot and humid) · es abrasador (hot and humid) · de verschmachtend (hot and humid) · bg зноен (hot and humid) · ca xafogós (hot and humid) · cmn 悶熱 /闷热的 (hot and humid) · ru знойный (hot and humid) · fr étouffant (hot and humid) · nl bloedheet (hot and humid) · tr çok sıcak (hot and humid) · es sofocante (hot and humid) · de glühend heiß (hot and humid) · et lämbe (hot and humid)

sweltering en · NOUN

Etymology

From swelter + -ing.

Meanings

1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
   • March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.

Forms

sweltering en · VERB

Etymology

From swelter + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of swelter
   form of swelter