Word Study
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Swelter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Swelter has 2 senses
- swelter(v = verb.body) Array - be uncomfortably hot; Array is one way to suffer
- swelter(v = verb.body) Array - suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach" is one way to perspire, sudate, sweat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
- To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- To welter; to soak. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Swelter, v. t.
- To oppress with heat. Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- To exude, like sweat. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Swelter, v. & n.
--v.intr. (of the atmosphere, or a person etc. suffering from it) be uncomfortably hot.
--n. a sweltering atmosphere or condition.
--v.intr. (of the atmosphere, or a person etc. suffering from it) be uncomfortably hot.
--n. a sweltering atmosphere or condition.
Derivative
swelteringly adv.
Etymology
base of (now dial.) swelt f. OE sweltan perish f. Gmc
THESAURUS
Swelter
BO, THI, bake, be in heat, beaded brow, beads of sweat, blaze, bloom, body odor, boil, broil, burn, choke, closeness, cold sweat, combust, cook, diaphoresis, exudate, exudation, exude, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fry, gasp, glow, honest sweat, humidity, humidness, incandesce, lather, melt, mugginess, oppressiveness, pant, parch, perspiration, perspiration odor, perspire, radiate heat, roast, scald, scorch, seethe, shimmer with heat, simmer, smolder, smother, spark, steam, stew, stickiness, stifle, streams of sweat, stuffiness, sudor, sudoresis, suffocate, sweat, temperature-humidity index, toast, water, wiltROGET THESAURUS
Swelter
Heat
VB be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.
For further exploring for "Swelter" in Webster Dictionary Online
