Swelter vs Shelter - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between swelter and shelter

is that swelter is to perspire greatly from heat while shelter is to take cover.

As verbs the difference between swelter and shelter

is that swelter is to suffer terribly from intense heat while shelter is to provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

As nouns the difference between swelter and shelter

is that swelter is intense heat while shelter is a refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

swelter

English

Verb

(en verb)

To suffer terribly from intense heat.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

To perspire greatly from heat.

Noun

(en noun)

Intense heat.

The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.

Anagrams

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shelter

English

Noun

(en noun)

A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

Derived terms

* bus shelter

Verb

(en verb)

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

* Dryden

Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

* Southey

You have no convents in which such persons may be received and sheltered .

To take cover.

During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.