swelter
swel ter
- v be uncomfortably hot
- v suffer from intense heat
we were sweltering at the beach
- Meanwhile, many Gazans swelter in the dark, fuming with anger at Abbas.
- The city's hip-hop scene is alive with the kind of resourcefulness needed in a place where nightly electrical interruptions and the unrelenting tropical swelter can turn music .
- In Oklahoma's Fort Sill thousands of raw recruits began to swelter to it.