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Swelter

 : 
Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
swel=ter

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Swelter has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

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

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

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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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.

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