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Answer for the clue "Suffered from great heat ", 9 letters:
sweltered

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Swelter \Swel"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering .] [From Swelt , v. i.] To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. ``Sweltered cattle.'' --Coleridge. To welter; to soak. [Obs.] --Drayton.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: swelter )

Usage examples of sweltered.

But the guards sweltered as the men on parade sweltered, and their search was perfunctory.

For fourteen hours that purgatorial area sweltered in the daytime heat, and then as the planet rolled in its course, it shifted over into the frosty darkness.