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Sweltering

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

Equivalents

8 more languages
العربيةالإحترار
Българскизноен
Catalàxafogós
Nederlandsbloedheet
Русскийзнойный
Svenskastekhet
Türkçebunaltıcı

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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