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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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