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Sweltered

Swelter \Swel"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweltering.] [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.

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sweltered

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.