| 单词 | swelter |
| 释义 | swelter (once / 5291 pages) v To swelter is to be hot — very, very hot, like on a humid, ninety-degree day. To swelter is to feel like you're in an oven. This word is most often seen in the form sweltering, as in "The weather is sweltering! It's been over 95 degrees for a week straight." Any form of swelter is going to involve major heat — enough heat to make you sweat buckets. The opposite of swelter is "freeze." WORD FAMILYswelter: sweltered, sweltering, swelters+/sweltering: swelteringest, swelteringly USAGE EXAMPLESThere was no air-conditioner, and it was a sweltering August. New York Times(Aug 30, 2016) It starts with a traffic jam, a sweltering ribbon of frustration on a Los Angeles freeway. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) In the sweltering southern city of Karachi, among Careem's largest markets, demand for secure taxis is particularly strong among women, Usman said. Reuters(Dec 07, 2016) 1v be uncomfortably hot Hyper suffer feel unwell or uncomfortable 2v suffer from intense heat we were sweltering at the beach Hyper perspire, sudate, sweat excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin |
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