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Webster 1828 Edition


Sweltering

SWELT'ERING

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ppr.
Fainting or languishing with heat; oppressing with heat.

Definition 2024


sweltering

sweltering

English

Adjective

sweltering

  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.

Translations

Verb

sweltering

  1. present participle of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

  1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
    • Northrop Frye
      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.