Associations to the word «Swelter»

Wiktionary

SWELTER, verb. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
SWELTER, verb. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
SWELTER, noun. Intense heat.

Dictionary definition

SWELTER, verb. Be uncomfortably hot.
SWELTER, verb. Suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope