sweltering

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English

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Etymology

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From swelter +‎ -ing.

Adjective

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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.

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Verb

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sweltering

  1. present participle and gerund of swelter

Noun

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sweltering (plural swelterings)

  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.

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