• n.
    ⦿a dangerous or distressing predicament

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
wn:example
⦿his views on race got him into political hot water
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:hot water
wn:interlingual indexili:i112728

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.state
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelhot water