SWELTER

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.

2.
v.

To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.

3.
v.

To oppress with heat. Bentley.

4.
v.

To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.


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