SWELTER meaning: Suffering from oppressive heat intensely

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General (26 matching dictionaries)

swelter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swelter: Merriam-Webster
swelter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
swelter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
swelter: Collins English Dictionary
swelter: Vocabulary.com
swelter: Wordnik
swelter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
swelter: Wiktionary
swelter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
swelter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
swelter: Infoplease Dictionary
swelter: Dictionary.com
swelter: Online Etymology Dictionary
Swelter (film), Swelter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Swelter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
swelter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
swelter: Rhymezone
Swelter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
swelter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
swelter: FreeDictionary.org
swelter: Mnemonic Dictionary
swelter: TheFreeDictionary.com
swelter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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swelter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swelter)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
▸ noun:  Intense heat.

Similar:

sweltry, hot, grill, stew, melt, burn up, sweat, cook, boil, burn, more...

Types:

heat wave, more...

Adjectives:

tropical, windless, more, heavy, humid, huge, asiatic, indefinable, numb, dusty, general

Colors:

fiery red, molten gold, burnt sienna, inferno red, more...

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