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Swelter vs Sweller - What's the difference?

swelter | sweller |

As nouns the difference between swelter and sweller

is that swelter is intense heat while sweller is one who, or that which, swells.

As a verb swelter

is to suffer terribly from intense heat.

As an adjective sweller is

comparative of swell.

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.

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    sweller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, swells.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (swell)