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swelter


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swelter  \Swel"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sweltered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Sweltering}.]  [From  {Swelt},  v.  i.] 
  1.  To  be  overcome  and  faint  with  heat;  to  be  ready  to  perish 
  with  heat.  ``Sweltered  cattle.''  --Coleridge. 
 
  2.  To  welter;  to  soak.  [Obs.]  --Drayton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swelter  \Swel"ter\,  v.  t. 
  1.  To  oppress  with  heat.  --Bentley. 
 
  2.  To  exude,  like  sweat.  [R.]  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  swelter 
  v  1:  be  uncomfortably  hot 
  2:  suffer  from  intense  heat;  "we  were  sweltering  at  the  beach" 




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