swelter
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix). More at swelt.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈswɛl.tə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈswɛl.tɚ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Verb[edit]
swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)
- (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
- (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter:
- It was so rare a piece of fun
To see the swelter'd cattle run
Translations[edit]
To suffer terribly from intense heat
Noun[edit]
swelter (plural swelters)
- Intense heat.
- The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.
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Translations[edit]
intense heat
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