sweltering

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  hot and humid; oppressively sticky

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Noun

 * 1) The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
 * 2) * March 11 1932,, 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.