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(of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky examples
present participle and gerund of swelter examples
plural swelterings
The situation of being or feeling hot and humid. quotations examples
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.
March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook