English

Adjective

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.

Translations

Verb

sweltering

1. present participle of swelter

Noun

sweltering ‎(plural swelterings)

1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
   • Northrop Frye

     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.