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| Main Entry: |
sweltering
 [swel-ter-ing] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | airless, baking, broiling, burning, close, fiery, humid, oppressive, perspiring, scorching, sizzling, stewing, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltry, torrid |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing |
| Main Entry: | swelter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn up |
| Synonyms: | boil, burn, fret, heat, languish, perspire, roast, stew, suffocate, sweat, wallow |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
| Main Entry: | broil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook under direct heat |
| Synonyms: | burn, melt, roast, scorch, sear, swelter |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
Example Sentences
- It was hazy, already sweltering and the billowing emission from a steampipe swirled depressingly.
- And sweltering in the dark has been only part of the problem.
- Sweltering inland temperatures are averaged with cooler coastal weather.
| Main Entry: | broiling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hot |
| Synonyms: | baking, burning, fiery, on fire, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, sizzling, sweltering, torrid |
| Antonyms: | freezing |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
| Synonyms: | airless, breathless, choky, confined, fusty, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, stale-smelling, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, sweltering, sweltry, thick, tight, uncomfortable, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become hot |
| Synonyms: | bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up |
| Antonyms: | cool, freeze |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very damp, referring to weather |
| Synonyms: | boiling, clammy, close, dank, irriguous, moist, mucky, muggy, oppressive, sodden, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sultry, sweaty, sweltering, watery, wet |
| Antonyms: | arid, dry |
| Main Entry: | ooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit liquid |
| Synonyms: | bleed, discharge, drain, dribble, drip, drop, escape, exude, filter, flow, issue, leach, leak, overflow, percolate, perspire, seep, spurt, strain, sweat, swelter, trickle, weep, well |
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