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sweb

/swɛb/

sweb verb: to swoon; faint.

Verb

sweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To swoon; faint.
    • Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.

Noun

sweb (plural swebs)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) A swoon.

Forms of sweb

Verb
third-person singular presentswebs
present participleswebbing
past participleswebbed
pastswebbed
alternative formswab
Noun
pluralswebs

Origin of sweb

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

Words formed from sweb

Words that rhyme with sweb

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Questions about sweb

What does sweb mean?
Sweb means to swoon; faint.
What part of speech is sweb?
Sweb can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce sweb?
Sweb is pronounced /swɛb/.
What is the past tense of sweb?
The past tense of sweb is swebbed.

Words near sweb in the dictionary

  1. Sweatt
  2. Sweatts
  3. sweatwear
  4. sweatworking
  5. sweaty
  6. sweb
  7. swebbing
  8. swebby
  9. swebs
  10. Swecker
  11. Sweckers

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