'Swelter' definitions:
Definition of 'swelter'
(from WordNet)
verb
Be uncomfortably hot
verb
Suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach"
Definition of 'Swelter'
From: GCIDE
- Swelter \Swel"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering.] [From Swelt, v. i.]
- 1. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swelter'
From: GCIDE
- Swelter \Swel"ter\, v. t.
- 1. To oppress with heat. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exude, like sweat. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'swelter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bake,
- be in heat,
- beaded brow,
- beads of sweat,
- blaze,
- bloom,
- BO,
- 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,
- THI,
- toast,
- water,
- wilt