different between sweltering vs roasting

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English rostyng; equivalent to roast +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????st??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?st??/

Verb

roasting

1. present participle of roast
   • 1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, Volume 74, page 66

     Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.

Adjective

roasting (comparative more roasting, superlative most roasting)

1. (colloquial) Very hot.

   The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.

Noun

roasting (plural roastings)

1. The act by which something is roasted.
   • 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting (page 15)

     These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings […]
2. (colloquial) A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).

   My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.

Anagrams

• Gorstian, atrogins, organist, signator, strong AI, tragions