sweltering
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
sweltering
- (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.
Translations edit
hot and humid
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Verb edit
sweltering
- present participle and gerund of swelter
Noun edit
sweltering (plural swelterings)
- 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.
- March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook