different between sweltery vs swelter

English

Etymology

swelter +? -y

Adjective

sweltery

1. Sweltering, sultry.

Anagrams

• Westerly, westerly

English

Etymology

From Middle English sweltren, swaltren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-Germanic *sweltan? (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt +? -er (frequentative suffix). More at swelt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Verb

swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)

1. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
2. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
3. (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

     It was so rare a piece of fun
     To see the swelter'd cattle run

Translations

Noun

swelter (plural swelters)

1. Intense heat.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lewters, Welters, welters, wrestle