Swelt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /swɛlt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Swelt is a verb meaning To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter.
Meaning
To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) simple past of swell
Example Sentences
Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,
Her deare hart nigh swelt, And eft gan into tender teares to melt.
Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces
Word Forms
- swelts
- swelting
- swelted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forswelt, welt, forwelk, swelleth, quell, welk.
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