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Swelter   Listen
verb
Swelter  v. i.  (past & past part. sweltered; pres. part. sweltering)  
1.
To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle."
2.
To welter; to soak. (Obs.)





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"Swelter" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the afternoon of September 9, a blazing hot day, and I was seated on the lawn under one of the fine magnolia-trees presented years before by Prince Henry of Prussia, wondering how much longer I must swelter here before getting off my despatch to the Times, when I heard the panting of a swiftly approaching automobile which presently drew up outside the grounds. A moment later a coloured chauffeur approached and asked if I was ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... as liked do a swelter; I sorntered about on the snap. Rum game this yer Politics, Charlie, seems arf talkee-talkee and trap. Jest fancy old Bluebottle letting the 'multitood' pic-nic and lark, And make Battersea Park of his pleasure-grounds, Bathelmy Fair ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... home at length and passion stills- The thing will be that is to be, And all must come as Heaven wills. Where in the swelter and the flame The new, hot, shining bullets drip; One in the many has an aim, Inwove a visage and a name- No man may give ...
— 'Hello, Soldier!' - Khaki Verse • Edward Dyson


Words linked to "Swelter" :   sudate, perspire, sweat


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