Definition of "weltering" []

• Present participle of welter. (verb)

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• "A&W may not have been around to experience "a translucent '48," but the revelations of '73 were, I imagine, "weltering" for many of us."
• "Driven from our stronghold on deck, indiscriminately crammed in below like figs in a drum, "weltering," as Carlyle has it, "like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers," the cabin windows all shut in, we tried to take it coolly, in spite of the suffocating heat."
• ""weltering," as Carlyle has it, "like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers," the cabin windows all shut in, we tried to take it coolly, in spite of the suffocating heat."