/swɛlt/
OriginFrom Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).
- dialectal, obsoleteTo die.
- dialectal, obsoleteTo succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
“Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,”
“Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces”
“Her deare hart nigh swelt, And eft gan into tender teares to melt.”
- dialectal, form-of, obsolete, pastsimple past of swell
Formsswelts(present, singular, third-person) · swelting(participle, present) · swelted(participle, past) · swelted(past) · swelt(participle, past) · swelt(past)
Source: Wiktionary