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SWELTERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweltering mean?
• SWELTERING (adjective)
The adjective SWELTERING has 1 sense:
1. excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
Familiarity information: SWELTERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
Synonyms:
sweltering; sweltry
Context example:
sweltering athletes
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Context examples
The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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