Sweltering

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

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.
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   2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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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