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- Dictionaryswelter/ˈswɛltə/
verb
- 1. be uncomfortably hot: "Barney sweltered in his doorman's uniform"
noun
- 1. an uncomfortably hot atmosphere: "the swelter of the afternoon had cooled"
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The meaning of SWELTER is to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat. How to use swelter in a sentence.
Meaning of swelter in English. swelter. verb [ I ] uk / ˈswel.tə r/ us / ˈswel.tɚ / Add to word list. (of a person) to feel very hot: The soldiers were sweltering in their uniforms. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hot & heat. bake. baking. beat down. blisteringly. boiling hot. closeness. fug. haze over. heated. mirage. overheat.
Meaning of swelter in English. swelter. verb [ I ] us / ˈswel.tɚ / uk / ˈswel.tə r/ Add to word list. (of a person) to feel very hot: The soldiers were sweltering in their uniforms. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hot & heat. bake. baking. beat down. blisteringly. boiling hot. closeness. fug. haze over. heated. mirage. overheat.
Swelter definition: to suffer from oppressive heat.. See examples of SWELTER used in a sentence.
verb. If you swelter, you are very uncomfortable because the weather is extremely hot. They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees. [VERB] Fred and Volodia sweltered at night in the stuffy, crowded cabins. [VERB] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. English Quiz. Confusables.
To swelter is to be hot — very, very hot, like on a humid, ninety-degree day. To swelter is to feel like you're in an oven.
Definition of swelter verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
