Usually means: Suffering from oppressive heat intensely.
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  1. swelter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swelter: Merriam-Webster
  3. swelter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swelter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swelter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swelter: Vocabulary.com
  7. swelter: Wordnik
  8. swelter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swelter: Wiktionary
  10. swelter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swelter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swelter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swelter: Dictionary.com
  14. swelter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Swelter (film), Swelter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swelter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swelter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swelter: Rhymezone
  19. Swelter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swelter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. swelter: FreeDictionary.org
  22. swelter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. swelter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. swelter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. swelter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sweltered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
verb:  (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
noun:  Intense heat.

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