oven-like

English

Etymology

From oven +‎ -like.

Adjective

oven-like (comparative more oven-like, superlative most oven-like)

  1. Alternative form of ovenlike.
    • 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:
      Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
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