3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sweltering adj : excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes" [syn: {sweltry}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 56 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweltering": ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, close, ebullient, feverish, fiery, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, humid, like a furnace, like an oven, melting, muggy, oppressive, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steaming, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sweating, sweaty, sweltry, toasting, torrid, tropical, wet, white-hot, wilting
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