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Torrid

adjective

Characterized by intense emotion. Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid. "An ardent lover" , "A fervent desire to change society" , "A fervent admirer" , "Fiery oratory" , "An impassioned appeal" , "A torrid love affair"

Emotionally charged and vigorously energetic. "Torrid jazz bands" , "Hot trumpets and torrid rhythms"

Extremely hot. "Sultry sands of the dessert"

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"Torrid" Quotes from Famous Books

... was so tremendous as to prove this contention up to the hilt. From May 18th to September 8th, 1565—that is to say, in one hundred and thirteen days—thirty thousand Moslems and eight thousand Christians perished—an average of some three hundred and thirty-six persons per day. In that blazing torrid heat the sufferings of those who survived from day to day must have been accentuated beyond bearing by the myriads of unburied corpses by which they lived surrounded; and that the contending forces were not swept away by pestilence ...

— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey

... when he left his dwelling and all his abstruse manuscripts to his favorite pupil, had particularly directed his attention to this row of shrubs. They had been collected by himself from remote countries, and had the poignancy of torrid climes in them; and he told him, that, properly used, they would be worth all the rest of the legacy a hundred-fold. As the apothecary, however, found the manuscripts, in which he conjectured there was a treatise on the subject of these shrubs, ...

— The Dolliver Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... trees, lying sprawled out like a boy, resting at times with sweet forgetfulness of the whole world, but feeling a dull pain whenever he remembered the stern, silent man pitching hay in the hot sun on the torrid ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... abroad either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away the cold uncomfortable months in profound slumbers; but these, residing as it were in a torrid zone, are always alert and merry—a good Christmas fire is to them like the heats of the dog-days. Though they are frequently heard by day, yet is their natural time of motion only in the night. As soon as it grows dusk, the chirping increases, and they come running forth, and are from the ...

— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White

... desert; December to February - northeast monsoon, moderate temperatures in north and very hot in south; May to October - southwest monsoon, torrid in the north and hot in the south, irregular rainfall, hot and ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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