swelter
verb (used without object)
to suffer from oppressive heat.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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You will only see dusty, upstart towns, with horrible corrugated-iron hotels, where you will swelter in heat and flies and eat abominable tinned stuffs.
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page