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sweltering

verb

Meaning

  • To suffer terribly from intense heat.

  • To perspire greatly from heat.

  • To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.

noun

Meaning

  • The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

adjective

Meaning

  • (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."