swelter
/swel-ter/US // ˈswɛl tər //UK // (ˈswɛltə) //
暴风雨,暴风雨来临之际,暴风雨来临前
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v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : to suffer from oppressive heat.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to oppress with heat.
- : Archaic. to exude, as venom.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a sweltering condition.
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verbsuffocate
Forms: sweltered, sweltering
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Examples
There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id.
Well, everybody isn't away, when there are several hundred people swelter all the hot season right here in Baltimore.
The city, hot as an oven, seemed to swelter in the stifling night.
In the crowded quarters of the cities millions of natives swelter and endure with the dumb resignation of animals.
Then follows hot weather, perhaps up in the eighties, and Californians grumble, swelter and rustle for summer clothes.
But in that glare and swelter of traffic, a trained human eye could not have recognized any particular car.
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