sweltering

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
    — March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook 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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of swelter form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. hot and humid; oppressively sticky
    — 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.

词形变化

swelterings plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English swelter
English -ing
English sweltering
From swelter + -ing.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English swelter
English -ing
English sweltering
From swelter + -ing.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English swelter
English -ing
English sweltering
From swelter + -ing.
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