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Verb: swelter  swel-tu(r)
  1. Be uncomfortably hot
     
  2. Suffer from intense heat
    "we were sweltering at the beach";
    - stew

Derived forms: sweltered, sweltering, swelters

Type of: perspire, sudate, suffer, sweat

Encyclopedia: Swelter

Nearest

sweet-talk
sweetwood bark
swell
swell box
swell up
swelled
swelled head
swellhead
swellheaded
swelling
swelter
sweltering
sweltry
swept
sweptback
sweptwing
Swertia
Swertia perennia
Swertia speciosa
swerve
swerving