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• v  be uncomfortably hot
• v  suffer from intense heat
  we were sweltering at the beach
• s  excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness
  a sweltering room
  sweltering athletes

• But before the disastrous day was over, blood soaked the melting asphalt of sweltering Calcutta's streets.
• First, yes, we all know that there's little reality in reality TV: those "intimate" dates, for instance, are staged in front of banks of cameras and sweltering floodlights.
• The midmorning temperature is sweltering.

• swelter
• sweltry

News & Articles

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• Sweltering conditions expected today, tomorrow in Nashville
  Middle Tennessee will shift from stormy to sweltering today, when experts predict temperatures could hit the 90s for the first time this year.
  June 11, 2013 - Ashland City Times
• VIDEO: Stuck on sweltering plane in Las Vegas, passengers break into song
  Despite the sweltering heat, cooler heads prevailed when a plane full of people stranded at the Las Vegas airport Sunday showed their frustration not through angry words but with a song.
  June 11, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun
• Congo orchestra born on mean streets finds royal favor
  By Jonny Hogg KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's sweltering riverside capital is more accustomed to the pulsating rhythms of some of Africa's most famous Soukous and Rumba musicians than the more genteel strains of Italian classical composer Guiseppe Verdi. But a strange musical oddity - a symphony orchestra of self-taught musicians, some of whom had to make their own instruments - is becoming one of ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News