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torrid 音标拼音: [t'ɔrəd] n. 晒焦的,酷热的,炎热的 晒焦的,酷热的,炎热的 torrid adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; " ardent love"; " an ardent lover"; " a fervent desire to change society"; " a fervent admirer"; " fiery oratory"; " an impassioned appeal"; " a torrid love affair" [ synonym: { ardent}, { fervent}, { fervid}, { fiery}, { impassioned}, { perfervid}, { torrid}] 2: emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; " a torrid dance"; " torrid jazz bands"; " hot trumpets and torrid rhythms" 3: extremely hot; " the torrid noonday sun"; " sultry sands of the dessert" Torrid \ Tor" rid\, a. [ L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See { Thirst}.] 1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. " Barca or Cyrene' s torrid soil." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. " Torrid heat." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Torrid zone} ( Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great. [ 1913 Webster] 65 Moby Thesaurus words for " torrid": amorous, ardent, arid, baking, blazing, blistering, blistery, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, cooking, ebullient, erotic, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot- blooded, humid, impassioned, inflamed, intense, like a furnace, like an oven, lustful, muggy, overheated, overwarm, parched, parching, passionate, piping hot, red- hot, roasting, scalding, scorched, scorching, searing, seething, sexy, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steaming, steamy, stifling, sudorific, sultry, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, tropical, white- hot
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