swelter
verb
[ ˈswɛltə ]
• be uncomfortably hot.
• "Barney sweltered in his doorman's uniform"
Similar:
hot,
stifling,
suffocating,
humid,
steamy,
sultry,
sticky,
muggy,
close,
stuffy,
airless,
oppressive,
tropical,
torrid,
burning,
searing,
parching,
like an oven,
like a Turkish bath,
jungle-like,
claggy,
boiling,
baking,
roasting,
blistering,
sizzling,
swelter
noun
• an uncomfortably hot atmosphere.
• "the swelter of the afternoon had cooled"
Origin:
Middle English: from the base of dialect swelt ‘perish’, of Germanic origin.
