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sweltering

noun C2
  1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

Plural swelterings

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During the sweltering summer of 1858, an unprecedented heat wave descended upon the burgeoning metropolis of London, exacerbating an already dire environmental crisis.
The Great Stink and the Engineering of a Modern Metropolis, p. 1 · C2

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