sweltering
Plural: swelterings
Verb
- be uncomfortably hot
- suffer from intense heat
- "we were sweltering at the beach"
- present participle and gerund of swelter
Adjective Satellite
- excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
- "a sweltering room"
- "sweltering athletes"
Adj
- hot and humid; oppressively sticky
Noun
- The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
Examples
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From swelter + -ing.
Scrabble Score: 14
sweltering: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsweltering: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sweltering: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
sweltering: valid Words With Friends Word