verb
Meaning 1
To die.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
swelt
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/swɛlt/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɛlt
verb
Meaning 2
To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 3
simple past of swell
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, form-of, obsolete, past
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History
Etymology
From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).