sweal
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of sweal
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To burn slowly.
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verb
- (intransitive)To burn slowly.
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(intransitive)To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
“[M]ind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again.”
- (transitive)To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
- (dialectal, transitive)To consume with fire; burn.
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(dialectal, transitive)To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
“"He thinks it's only a tumour!" cried Annie to her mother. "And he can sweal it away."”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English swelen, from Old English swelan (“to burn, be burnt up, inflame”) (compare Old English swǣlan (“to burn”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swelan, from Proto-Germanic *swelaną (“to smoulder, burn…
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From Middle English swelen, from Old English swelan (“to burn, be burnt up, inflame”) (compare Old English swǣlan (“to burn”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swelan, from Proto-Germanic *swelaną (“to smoulder, burn slowly, create a burningly cold sensation”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”). Cognate with Dutch zwelen (“to smoulder”), Low German swelen (“to smoulder”), German schwelen (“to smoulder”), Icelandic svala (“to cool”). Related to swelter.
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