英语词汇“sweltry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sweltry

释义

sweltry, a. Now arch. and dial.|ˈswɛltrɪ|
Also 6–7 sweltrie, 7–8 swealtry, sweltery.
[f. swelter v. + -y. Cf. sultry.]
1. Of heat, weather, etc.: Oppressively hot, sweltering, sultry.
1576Turberv. Venerie 118 The vehement sweltrie heate thereof [sc. the sun].1661Evelyn Fumifugium Misc. Writ. (1805) i. 216 The drier aer is generally the more salutary and healthy, so it be not too sweltery.1775Adair Amer. Ind. 7 When they are waddling, whooping, and prancing it away, in their sweltery town-houses,..around the reputed holy fire.1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 499 The fierce heat of the sun had rendered the atmosphere sweltry and oppressive.
b. transf. of feeling or action.
1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xi, The wretched thrall Of bitter dropping sweat, of swealtry pain.1819[H. Busk] Vestriad iv. 801 Labouring thro' the sweltry dance.
2. Oppressed or languishing with heat.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 121 Phebus now hastened to bathe his swealtry Steeds in the foaming Ocean.1796Coleridge Destiny of Nations 150 Along the rough-hewn bench The sweltry man had stretched him.

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