swelt

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /swɛlt/ Rhymes: -ɛlt === Etymology 1 === From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”). ==== Verb ==== swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt) (obsolete outside dialects) To die. 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, ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== swelt (obsolete) simple past of swell === Anagrams === Welts, welts