swelter

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  1. intransitive verb To suffer from oppressive heat.
  2. transitive verb To affect with oppressive heat.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To exude (venom, for example).
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  • The day steamed with the usual D.C. swelter, baking off the sidewalk. —  The Last Oracle by James Rollins
  • Anything to make the coming summer swelter a bit more bearable. —  The Facts: News
  • Helter skelter in an economic swelter. —  The Garlic
  • Does it mean that the capital of Uzbekistan should expect to swelter in scorching heat between May and October? —  Ferghana.Ru news agency
  • How far away now seems the welter and swelter of the city, the hectic sophistication of the streets. —  Ballads of a Bohemian
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swelter:   sweltering
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English swelteren, frequentative of swelten, to faint from heat, from Old English sweltan, to perish.

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  1. from Middle English *swelteren, sweltren, swalteren, freq. of swelten, die, faint: see swelt.
 

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/ˈswɛltər/
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