swelt

present singular third person swelts · participle present swelting · participle past swelted · past swelted

1. dialectalobsoleteTo die.
2. dialectalobsoleteTo succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter

   Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,

   1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571

   2 more examples

   Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces

   a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night

   Her deare hart nigh swelt, And eft gan into tender teares to melt.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

1. dialectalobsoletepastsimple past of swell