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HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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Swelter

POS

Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

HYPHEN

swel=ter

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Swelter has 2 senses

swelter(v = verb.body) - be uncomfortably hot;

is one way to

suffer

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

swelter(v = verb.body) - suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach"

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Swelter, v. i. [From Swelt, v. i.].

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
To welter; to soak. Drayton. [1913 Webster]

Swelter, v. t.

To oppress with heat. Bentley. [1913 Webster]
To exude, like sweat. Shak. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Swelter, v. & n.
--v.intr. (of the atmosphere, or a person etc. suffering from it) be uncomfortably hot.
--n. a sweltering atmosphere or condition.

Derivative

swelteringly adv.

Etymology

base of (now dial.) swelt f. OE sweltan perish f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

Swelter

BO, THI, bake, be in heat, beaded brow, beads of sweat, blaze, bloom, body odor, boil, broil, burn, choke, closeness, cold sweat, combust, cook, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, exude, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fry, gasp, glow, honest sweat, humidity, humidness, incandesce, lather, melt, mugginess, oppressiveness, pant, parch, perspiration, perspiration odor, perspire, radiate heat, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, smolder, smother, spark, steam, stew, stickiness, stifle, streams of sweat, stuffiness, sudor, sudoresis, suffocate, sweat, temperature-humidity index, toast, water, wilt

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ROGET THESAURUS

Swelter

Heat

VB be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.