sweltering 音标拼音: [sw'ɛltɚɪŋ]
a . 闷热的,炎热的,中暑的
闷热的,炎热的,中暑的
sweltering adj 1 :
excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness ; "
a sweltering room "; "
sweltering athletes "
[
synonym : {
sweltering }, {
sweltry }]
Swelter \
Swel "
ter \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Sweltered };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Sweltering }.] [
From {
Swelt },
v .
i .]
1 .
To be overcome and faint with heat ;
to be ready to perish with heat . "
Sweltered cattle ." --
Coleridge .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
To welter ;
to soak . [
Obs .] --
Drayton .
[
1913 Webster ]
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sweltering ":
ardent ,
baking ,
blistering ,
boiling ,
broiling ,
burning ,
burning hot ,
canicular ,
clammy ,
close ,
ebullient ,
feverish ,
fiery ,
flushed ,
grilling ,
heated ,
hot ,
hot as fire ,
hot as hell ,
humid ,
like a furnace ,
like an oven ,
melting ,
muggy ,
oppressive ,
overheated ,
overwarm ,
parching ,
piping hot ,
red -
hot ,
roasting ,
scalding ,
scorching ,
searing ,
seething ,
simmering ,
sizzling ,
sizzling hot ,
smoking hot ,
steaming ,
steamy ,
sticky ,
stifling ,
stuffy ,
sudorific ,
suffocating ,
sultry ,
sweating ,
sweaty ,
sweltry ,
toasting ,
torrid ,
tropical ,
wet ,
white -
hot ,
wilting
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