sweltered

Verb

swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)

1. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.

   Synonyms:

   burn up, steam, stew

2. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.

   Synonyms:

   sweat buckets, sweat like a pig

3. (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
   • It was so rare a piece of fun
     To see the swelter'd cattle run1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

   Synonyms:

   sweb, swelt

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