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- Dictionaryswelter/ˈswɛltə/
verb
- 1. be uncomfortably hot: "Barney sweltered in his doorman's uniform"
noun
- 1. an uncomfortably hot atmosphere: "the swelter of the afternoon had cooled"
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The meaning of SWELTER is to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat. How to use swelter in a sentence.
Meaning of swelter in English. swelter. verb [ I ] uk / ˈswel.tə r/ us / ˈswel.tɚ / Add to word list. (of a person) to feel very hot: The soldiers were sweltering in their uniforms. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hot & heat. bake. baking. beat down phrasal verb. blisteringly. boiling hot. closeness. fug. haze over phrasal verb.
swelter. verb [ I ] us / ˈswel.tɚ / uk / ˈswel.tə r/ Add to word list. (of a person) to feel very hot: The soldiers were sweltering in their uniforms. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hot & heat. bake. baking. beat down. blisteringly. boiling hot. closeness. fug. haze over. heated. mirage. overheat. scorchingly. stiflingly. stuffiness.
To swelter is to be hot — very, very hot, like on a humid, ninety-degree day. To swelter is to feel like you're in an oven.
1.(intransitive) to suffer under oppressive heat, esp to sweat and feel faint. 2.(transitive) archaic. to exude (venom) 3.(transitive) rare. to cause to suffer under oppressive heat. noun. 4. a sweltering condition (esp in the phrase in a swelter)
noun. a sweltering condition. swelter. / ˈswɛltə / verb. intr to suffer under oppressive heat, esp to sweat and feel faint. archaic. tr to exude (venom) rare. tr to cause to suffer under oppressive heat.
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