swelter

Meanings

Plural: swelters

Verb

be uncomfortably hot
suffer from intense heat
- "we were sweltering at the beach"
To suffer terribly from intense heat.
To perspire greatly from heat.
To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.

Noun

Intense heat.

Origin / Etymology

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).

Synonyms

burn up, steam, stew, sweat buckets, sweat like a pig, sweb, swelt

Scrabble Score: 10

swelter is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
swelter is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swelter is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

swelter is a valid Words With Friends word