swelters
Suffers from extreme heat
Swelters is the third-person singular of swelter, meaning to suffer from oppressive heat: The city swelters through another August.
The word suggests not just high temperature but the discomfort that comes with it—sticky, airless, enervating.
A place that swelters is unbearably hot; a person who swelters is wilting in it.
Unpleasantly warm and humid
steamy · suffocating · stifling · swampy · heavy · thick · damp · airless
Extremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
- bakingCooking with dry heat
roasting · broiling · burning · torrid · sultry · steamy · tropical · blazing
Moisture through pores
- pantingRapid labored breathing
- overheatedExcessively warm
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- languishingGrowing weak, losing vigor
flushed · drenched · parched · exhausted · dehydrated · faint · dizzy · lethargic
muggy
Unpleasantly warm and humid
sultry · steamy · suffocating · stifling · swampy · heavy · thick · damp · airless · close
scorching
Extremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
baking · roasting · broiling · burning · torrid · sultry · steamy · tropical · blazing · oppressive
sweating
Moisture through pores
- pantingRapid labored breathing
- overheatedExcessively warm
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
languishing · flushed · drenched · parched · exhausted · dehydrated · faint · dizzy · lethargic · enervated