swelt
Not valid in Scrabble
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
/swɛlt/
Definition of swelt
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (dialectal, obsolete)To die.
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verb
- (dialectal, obsolete)To die.
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(dialectal, obsolete)To 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, past)simple past of swell
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Etymology
From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).
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