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sweltering

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English

Etymology

From swelter +‎ -ing.

Adjective

sweltering

(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

hot and humid

Bulgarian: зноен (bg) (znoen)
Catalan: xafogós (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 悶熱／闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh), 闷热 (zh) (mēnrè)的 (zh) (mēnrè de)
Dutch: bloedheet (nl)
Esperanto: sufoka
French: étouffant (fr)
German: drückend heiß (de), glühend heiß (de), verschmachtend (de)
Russian: знойный (ru) (znojnyj)
Spanish: sofocante (es)
Turkish: aşırı sıcak (tr), bunaltıcı (tr), çok sıcak (tr)

Verb

sweltering

present participle and gerund of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

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.

Anagrams

e-wrestling, welterings

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