Definition of SWELTER

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Verb We were sweltering in the summer heat. Noun the set designer spent the entire week before opening night in a swelter

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Australia has experienced one of the worst droughts in decades and sweltered under a record-breaking heat wave last week, when the average maximum temperature across the country hit 41.9 degrees Celsius (107.4 Fahrenheit). — Chandler Thornton, CNN, "Sydney famous New Year's Eve fireworks display to go ahead amid bushfire threat," 29 Dec. 2019 Along with expanding drought conditions, many parts of the country have been sweltering under record October heat, with places from Florida to Indiana to New York showing temperatures of 90 degrees or above in the first few days of the month. — Aj Willingham, CNN, "There's a severe drought in the South, and it's making the leaves change," 4 Oct. 2019 However, the Southeast was quite warm as Florida sweltered through its third-warmest June on record. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, "Summer swelter: Earth just had its hottest June on record," 18 July 2019 Families from the Himalayan region of Kashmir have traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) in sweltering heat to meet relatives being held in an Indian jail in the city of Agra. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Families struggle to meet Kashmiris lodged in Indian jail," 20 Sep. 2019 The advisory came as Massachusetts was expected to swelter through the fourth day of a heat wave Wednesday. — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, "Severe thunderstorm watch issued for much of Mass. until 9 p.m.," 31 July 2019 During the summer, dozens of cities in the US sweltered under record-high temperatures and waited out historically long hot streaks. — Aj Willingham And Judson Jones, CNN, "2019 had 3 of the warmest months on record. The rest weren't far behind," 17 Dec. 2019 June, July, sweltering in that city of love, in another building made of brick. — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, "The Impeachment Hearings and the Coming Storm," 6 Dec. 2019 Three people turned themselves in Monday to face charges in the case of a Florida nursing home where 12 patients died after its air conditioning power went out amid sweltering heat following Hurricane Irma in 2017, their attorneys said. — CBS News, "3 people turn themselves in to face charges in Florida nursing home deaths, attorneys say," 26 Aug. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun More than 100 bushfires are raging in Australia as the continent swelters under record-setting heat, a double whammy of extremes that has amplified scrutiny of what experts say is stark inaction from the Australian government on climate change. — NBC News, "Australia is on fire, literally — and so are its climate politics," 18 Dec. 2019 Stronger and stronger heat waves forced communities across the country and world into dangerous swelter. — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, "The decade we finally woke up to climate change," 12 Dec. 2019 Perhaps fittingly, the first workweek of the District’s hottest month of the year ended Friday with the city again feeling the sweat and swelter of a heat wave. — Martin Weil, Washington Post, "Friday caps District’s heat wave, but cooler days could be ahead," 5 July 2019 People sleep on the roofs to escape the indoor swelter. — New York Times, "‘Our Patience Is Over’: Why Iraqis Are Protesting," 20 Nov. 2019 Experts say a flash drought often begins as a pin-sized swelter in one county, then expands like an amoeba across the landscape. — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, "As Temperatures Rise, “Flash Drought” Takes Hold Across South," 4 Oct. 2019 Atlanta won't escape the swelter and is expected to feel as hot as 103 on Tuesday. — NBC News, "Dangerous heat wave blazes across large parts of Plains, South," 13 Aug. 2019 Some of the country’s biggest cities can expect to swelter. — Farah Stockman, New York Times, "Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect.," 17 July 2019 This is a mysterious region far from the sun itself but swelters outer space with temperatures over one million degrees Fahrenheit. — Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, "Meet the storm in the sky that would engulf Earth if it weren’t 93 million miles away," 13 June 2019

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