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verb-intransitive. To suffer from oppressive heat.

v. To affect with oppressive heat.

v. Archaic To exude (venom, for example).

n. A condition of oppressive heat.

v. To suffer terribly from intense heat.

v. To perspire greatly from heat.

n. Intense heat.

verb-intransitive. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

verb-intransitive. To welter; to soak.

v. To oppress with heat.

v. To exude, like sweat.

To faint with heat; be ready to perish with heat.

To perspire freely; sweat.

To oppress with heat.

To cause to exude like sweat, by or as if by heat.

[Sweltered venom is also explained as venom moistened with the animal's sweat.]

To soak; steep.

v. be uncomfortably hot

v. suffer from intense heat

"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."

sweltered    sweltering    swelters   

suffer    sudate    sweat    perspire   

welter    soak    perspire    glow   

belter    felter    helter    kelter    shelter    skelter    smelter    welter   

torrid    muggy    steamy    humid    rainy    fetid    sunless    stuffy    airless    July