The difference between Stew and Swelter

When used as nouns, stew means a cooking-dish used for boiling, whereas swelter means intense heat.

When used as verbs, stew means to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering, whereas swelter means to suffer terribly from intense heat.

check bellow for the other definitions of Stew and Swelter

Stew as a noun (obsolete):

A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
Stew as a noun (now, _, historical):

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
Stew as a noun (archaic):

A brothel.
Stew as a noun (obsolete):

A prostitute.

Examples:

"rfquotek Sir A. Weldon"
Stew as a noun (uncountable, countable):

A dish cooked by stewing.
Stew as a noun (Sussex):

A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
Stew as a noun (US, regional):

An artificial bed of oysters.
Stew as a noun (slang):

A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

Examples:

"to be in a stew'"

Stew as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative):

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

Examples:

"I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."

"The meat is stewing nicely."
Stew as a verb (transitive):

To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

Swelter as a verb (intransitive):

To suffer terribly from intense heat.

Examples:

"rfquotek Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
Swelter as a verb (intransitive):

To perspire greatly from heat.
Swelter as a verb (transitive):

To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.

Swelter as a noun:

Intense heat.

Examples:

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