sweatbox
sweatbox Lexical Profile
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• noun
A very small, cramped, and uncomfortably hot room, vehicle, or enclosed space.
"Without air conditioning during the July heatwave, the top-floor apartment quickly turned into an unbearable sweatbox."
A small, stiflingly hot confinement cell or interrogation room formerly used to punish prisoners or coerce confessions.
"Historical accounts from the nineteenth-century prison describe how unruly inmates were locked in a wooden sweatbox for hours."
An enclosed wooden apparatus or cabinet in which a person sits to induce heavy perspiration for therapeutic or weight-loss purposes, or a container used in agriculture to cure dried fruits, tobacco, or hides.
"After drying the figs in the sun for several days, the growers placed them into a sweatbox to equalize their moisture content."