SWELTERING

sweltering, sweltry

(adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; “a sweltering room”; “sweltering athletes”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

sweltering

(of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky

Verb

sweltering

present participle of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

Anagrams

• e-wrestling, welterings

Source: Wiktionary


SWELTER

Swel"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering.] Etym: [From Swelt, v. i.]

1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.

2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.

Swel"ter, v. t.

1. To oppress with heat. Bentley.

2. To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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