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Webster 1913 Edition
Swelter
1.
To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
“Sweltered cattle.” Coleridge.
2.
To welter; to soak.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Swel′ter
,Verb.
T.
1.
To oppress with heat.
Bentley.
2.
To exude, like sweat.
[R.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Swelter
SWELT'ER
,Verb.
I.
SWELT'ER
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
swelter
swelter
English
Verb
swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)
- (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to this entry?)
- (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
Translations
To suffer terribly from intense heat
Noun
swelter (plural swelters)
- Intense heat.
- The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.