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blistering

English

Verb

blistering

  1. present participle of blister

Adjective

blistering (comparative more blistering, superlative most blistering)

  1. Causing blisters
  2. Very hot
  3. Harsh or corrosive
  4. Scornful
  5. Very fast

Translations

Noun

blistering (plural blisterings)

  1. (medicine, veterinary) The practice of forming blisters on the skin, to promote blood flow and aid healing.
    • 1852, The American Journal of Homoeopathy (volumes 7-9, page 99)
      Inflammations are treated generally by allopathic practitioners by bleedings, blisterings, purgings, vomitings, Antimony and Mercury: and this is practised, more or less, with little variation, wherever the seat of the inflammation may be.

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sweltering

English

Adjective

sweltering

  1. (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky

Translations

Verb

sweltering

  1. present participle of swelter

Noun

sweltering (plural swelterings)

  1. The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.
    • March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, 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.

Anagrams

  • e-wrestling, welterings

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