Explore Swelter through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like suffer or sweat. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Swelter meaning
- To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- To perspire greatly from heat.
- To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
Using Swelter
- The main meaning on this page is: To suffer terribly from intense heat. | To perspire greatly from heat. | To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
- Useful related words include: suffer, sweat, sudate, perspire.
- In the example corpus, swelter often appears in combinations such as: to swelter, summer swelter.
Context around Swelter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Swelter
- In this selection, "swelter" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, summer, subterranean and outside stand out and add context to how "swelter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adelaide will swelter on thursday and in summer swelter the beer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "swelter" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with swelter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The beach will prove popular with Perth set to swelter. (10 words)
Many have no air-conditioning, leaving students to swelter in poorly ventilated classrooms. (13 words)
Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide will swelter on Thursday, soon after the country's hottest ever day. (16 words)
That fact gave greater meaning to the parade of thousands lined up in the swelter outside the U.S. Capitol, where this week Lewis’ body lay in state in the rotunda, making him the first Black lawmaker ever honored in that way. (42 words)
Londoners often complain about the soaring temperatures on the Underground during heatwaves - but the subterranean swelter could soon be used to keep homes warm in the colder months. (28 words)
Other parts of the country are also set to swelter this week, with temperatures hitting 30C in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Queensland. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
Other parts of the country are also set to swelter this week, with temperatures hitting 30C in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Queensland.
The beach will prove popular with Perth set to swelter.
The fair ran May 5 to 29, its second year as a spring fling rather than a late summer swelter.
Many have no air-conditioning, leaving students to swelter in poorly ventilated classrooms.
That fact gave greater meaning to the parade of thousands lined up in the swelter outside the U.S. Capitol, where this week Lewis’ body lay in state in the rotunda, making him the first Black lawmaker ever honored in that way.
Londoners often complain about the soaring temperatures on the Underground during heatwaves - but the subterranean swelter could soon be used to keep homes warm in the colder months.
Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide will swelter on Thursday, soon after the country's hottest ever day.
In Summer Swelter, the beer is brewed with lime and lemon peels, and then later lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves are added.
Common combinations with swelter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to swelter 3×
- summer swelter 2×