swelter
Bake in humidity
Swelter is a verb, noun, and adjective that all have to do with heat.
If you swelter, you suffer from heat.
If you swelter through something, you endure it despite the heat.
As an adjective, swelter is a bit old-fashioned.
The more common form, sweltering, describes a very hot and uncomfortable condition: We had a sweltering summer.
Extremely hot, burning
blazing · oppressive · stifling · suffocating · furnace · inferno · heatwave · boiling
Unpleasantly warm and humid
steamy · close · airless · thick · heavy · moisture · tropical · monsoon
scorching
Extremely hot, burning
roasting · blazing · oppressive · stifling · suffocating · furnace · inferno · heatwave · boiling · torrid
muggy
Unpleasantly warm and humid
damp · steamy · close · airless · thick · heavy · moisture · tropical · monsoon · perspiration
heatwave
Prolonged abnormally high temperatures
sunstroke · shade · air conditioning · fan · ice water · popsicle · poolside · siesta · sunscreen · parasol
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
droop · faint · listless · sluggish · lethargic · drained · exhausted · miserable · uncomfortable · irritable