sweltering

3 definitions found

sweltering - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

sweltering - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sweltering
      adj 1: excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and
             faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes"
             [syn: sweltering, sweltry]

sweltering - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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