swelter

Plural: swelters

Verb

Verb Forms: sweltered, sweltering, swelters

To suffer from or be oppressed by extreme heat.
be uncomfortably hot
suffer from intense heat
- "we were sweltering at the beach"
To suffer terribly from intense heat.
To perspire greatly from heat.
To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.

Noun

Intense heat.

Examples

The pressure to find a bingo made him SWELTER, despite the air conditioning.
The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.

Origin / Etymology

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).

Synonyms

burn up, steam, stew, sweat buckets, sweat like a pig, sweb, swelt

Scrabble Score: 10

swelter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
swelter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swelter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

swelter: valid Words With Friends Word