English-Thai Dictionary

swelter

N ความร้อน อบอ้าว  ความ ร้อนระอุ  heat hotness kwam-ron-aob-ao

 

swelter

VI ร้อน อบอ้าว  ร้อนระอุ  suffocate glow hot rob-aob-ao

 

swelter

VT ซึม ออก  ไหล ออก  sweat perspire suem-ook

 

sweltering

ADJ ร้อน มาก  hot scorching ron-mak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWELTER

v.i.[from swelt. ] To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

 

SWELTER

v.t.To oppress with heat.

 

SWELTERED

pp. Oppressed with heat.

 

SWELTERING

ppr. Fainting or languishing with heat; oppressing with heat.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SWELTER

Swel "ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering. ]Etym: [From Swelt, v. i.]

 

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

 

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

 

SWELTER

SWELTER Swel "ter, v. t.

 

1. To oppress with heat. Bentley.

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

swelter

swel ter |ˈsweltər ˈswɛltər | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a person or the atmosphere at a particular time or place ) be uncomfortably hot: Barney sweltered in his doorman's uniform. ▶noun [ in sing. ] an uncomfortably hot atmosphere: the swelter of an August day. ORIGIN Middle English: from the base of dialect swelt ‘perish, ’ of Germanic origin.

 

sweltering

swel ter ing |ˈswelt (ə )riNG | ▶adjective uncomfortably hot: the sweltering afternoon heat. DERIVATIVES swel ter ing ly adverb

 

Oxford Dictionary

swelter

swel |ter |ˈswɛltə | ▶verb [ no obj. ] be uncomfortably hot: Barney sweltered in his doorman's uniform. ▶noun [ in sing. ] an uncomfortably hot atmosphere: the swelter of the afternoon had cooled. ORIGIN Middle English: from the base of dialect swelt ‘perish ’, of Germanic origin.

 

sweltering

swel |ter |ing |ˈswɛlt (ə )rɪŋ | ▶adjective uncomfortably hot: a sweltering English summer | the sweltering heat outside. DERIVATIVES swelteringly adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sweltering

sweltering adjective a sweltering afternoon: hot, stifling, humid, sultry, sticky, muggy, close, stuffy; tropical, torrid, searing, blistering; informal boiling (hot ), baking, roasting, sizzling. ANTONYMS freezing.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sweltering

sweltering adjective a sweltering afternoon: hot, stifling, suffocating, humid, steamy, sultry, sticky, muggy, close, stuffy, airless, oppressive, tropical, torrid, burning, searing, parching, like an oven, like a Turkish bath, jungle-like; informal boiling, baking, roasting, blistering, sizzling. ANTONYMS cold, chilly, cool.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

swelter

swel ter /swéltə r /動詞 自動詞 〈人が 〉暑さにうだる, 汗だくになる .名詞 U うだるような暑さ .

 

sweltering

sw é l ter ing /-t (ə )rɪŋ /形容詞 〈気候などが 〉うだるように暑い, 蒸し暑い .