swelter
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swelter
- /ˈswɛl.tə/ UK
- /ˈswɛl.tɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɛltə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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).
verb swelters · sweltering · sweltered · sulter
- To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- To perspire greatly from heat.
- To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat. It was so rare a piece of fun To see the swelter'd cattle run
noun swelters · sulter
- Intense heat. The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.
