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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.
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     2. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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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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