Adjective
hot and humid; oppressively sticky
Usage- of weather
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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.
Noun
The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
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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.
Adjective
excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
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a sweltering room
sweltering athletes