swelt
verb/swɛlt/
Etymology From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).
- Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571
- Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnacesa. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night:
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- Her deare hart nigh swelt, And eft gan into tender teares to melt.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- forswelt