swelter
Meaning
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- To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- To perspire greatly from heat.
- To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈswɛl.tə/
Etymology
In summary
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).
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