swelter
to suffer from oppressive heat.
to oppress with heat.
Archaic. to exude, as venom.
a sweltering condition.
Origin of swelter
1Other words from swelter
- un·swel·tered, adjective
Words Nearby swelter
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use swelter in a sentence
There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id.
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea, the ‘Sex Superbug,’ Is Not Worse Than AIDS | Kent Sepkowitz | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWell, everybody isn't away, when there are several hundred people swelter all the hot season right here in Baltimore.
Dorothy | Evelyn RaymondThe city, hot as an oven, seemed to swelter in the stifling night.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 | Guy de MaupassantIn the crowded quarters of the cities millions of natives swelter and endure with the dumb resignation of animals.
Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon CasserlyThen follows hot weather, perhaps up in the eighties, and Californians grumble, swelter and rustle for summer clothes.
The City That Was | Will Irwin
But in that glare and swelter of traffic, a trained human eye could not have recognized any particular car.
Lad: A Dog | Albert Payson Terhune
British Dictionary definitions for swelter
/ (ˈswɛltə) /
(intr) to suffer under oppressive heat, esp to sweat and feel faint
(tr) archaic to exude (venom)
(tr) rare to cause to suffer under oppressive heat
a sweltering condition (esp in the phrase in a swelter)
oppressive humid heat
Origin of swelter
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse