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Vinony

sweltering

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English swelter English -ing English sweltering From swelter + -ing.

  1. 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.”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English swelter English -ing English sweltering From swelter + -ing.

  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.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English swelter English -ing English sweltering From swelter + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of swelter