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.