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Sweltered vs Skeltered - What's the difference?

sweltered | skeltered |

As verbs the difference between sweltered and skeltered

is that sweltered is past tense of swelter while skeltered is past tense of skelter.

sweltered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swelter)

    • 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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    skeltered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (skelter)

    • skelter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
  • * Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago
    • It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village