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third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered
(intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat. examples
(intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat. examples
(transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat. quotations examples
It was so rare a piece of fun To see the swelter'd cattle run
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
plural swelters
Intense heat. examples