different between steaming vs sweltering

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sti?m.??/
• Rhymes: -i?m??

Noun

steaming (countable and uncountable, plural steamings)

1. The action of steam on something.
2. The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
3. (Britain, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus, train, etc.; see Steaming (crime).
4. Relating to the ability of a steam locomotive (etc.) to raise steam.

Translations

Adjective

steaming (comparative more steaming, superlative most steaming)

1. Giving off steam.

   We were served with steaming bowls of soup.

2. (slang) Very angry.

   I was steaming when I heard about their betrayal.

3. (slang) Extremely drunk.

Synonyms

• (giving off steam): steamy
• (very angry): apoplectic, enraged, furious; see also Thesaurus:angry
• (extremely drunk): paralytic, sloshed, wasted; see also Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

Verb

steaming

1. present participle of steam

Anagrams

• mangiest, mintages, negatism, teamings

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