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Sweltering vs Weltering - What's the difference?

sweltering | weltering |

As verbs the difference between sweltering and weltering

is that sweltering is while weltering is .

As an adjective sweltering

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

As a noun weltering is

the motion of something that welters; a billowing.

sweltering

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (of weather) hot and humid; oppressively sticky
    • The day was sweltering , so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

    Verb

    (head)

    • weltering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that welters; a billowing.
  • * 1854 , Hugh Miller, The Two Records: The Mosaic and the Geological
    • They may have extended, it is said, over only a few provinces of Central Asia, in which, when all was life and light in other parts of the globe, there reigned for a time only death and darkness amid the welterings of a chaotic sea