swelter
IPA: swˈɛɫtɝ
noun
- Intense heat.
verb
- (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
- (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
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Examples of "swelter" in Sentences
- Let's prepare to swelter today.
- South swelters as North suffers.
- It's sweltering hot and everybody is miserable.
- City is set to swelter under a hot December sun.
- Those sweltering summer days were the best days I've ever had.
- The costumes were sweltering in the heat of television studios.
- Despite the sweltering heat of summer, he continued to run per day.
- Summer soon arrived and the sweltering heat killed several plants and shrubs.
- The gym is noted for how loud it becomes and the sweltering heat on gamenights.
- These resorts were oases from sweltering hot cities for many African Americans.
- I'm not arguing that one should swelter in woolen knee socks during July and August.
- I only managed 616 words on "January 28, 1926," before the swelter of the office got to me.
- I'm a bit ill from the most recent increase in my Prazosin dosage, bad timing with this swelter.
- Dallas hit 100 degrees for an unprecedented 70th day as Texas continued to swelter under record summer heat.
- This year the match was several weeks earlier than usual to avoid last year's swelter, Mr. Figueras explained.
- At the rehearsal dinner, au contraire, I will have nothing between me and the elements except my kurta, and will have to hope for swelter.
- That was 1980, a year of such sizzle and swelter that it has become memorable to those who experienced it, and created widespread doubt that its misery could ever be matched.
- The record high "swelter" lasted from July 21-26, making the string of unabated heat the longest high temperatures ever recorded in Wayne County, and residents endured the heat without benefit of air conditioning.
- Arpaio knows that the genteel class is willing to do just about anything to avoid having to serve time in the tents, where inmates are packed in like rats to swelter in the summer and get chilled to the bone in the winter.
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