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swelt

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sw?lt/
  • Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltan?. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).

Verb

swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past swelted or swolt, past participle swelted or swolten)

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) To die.
  2. (obsolete outside dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
    • 1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571:
      Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,
    • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night
      Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Verb

swelt

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of swell

Anagrams

  • welts

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svelt

English

Adjective

svelt (comparative more svelt, superlative most svelt)

  1. Alternative form of svelte

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