'Sweltering' definitions:

Definition of 'sweltering'

From: WordNet
adjective
Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes" [syn: sweltering, sweltry]

Definition of 'Sweltering'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

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