| 单词 | sweltering |
| 释义 | sweltering (once / 6549 pages) adj Sweltering means uncomfortably hot. Walking home from work on a sweltering day will leave you sweating. A sweltering summer afternoon might cause you to turn on the air conditioning in your apartment or take a cool shower. To be sweltering is more than merely being hot — it's the kind of damp, intense heat that sends everyone to the pool or beach for some relief. The verb swelter came first, from the now obsolete word swelten, "be faint from heat," rooted in the Old English sweltan, "to die or perish." WORD FAMILYsweltering: swelteringest, swelteringly+/swelter: sweltered, sweltering, swelters 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) adj excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness a sweltering room sweltering athletes Syn sweltry hot used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning |
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