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swelts

swelts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swelt.

Meaning of swelt

Verb

swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To die.
  2. (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,1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571

Questions about swelts

What is swelts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Swelts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swelt.

Words near swelts in the dictionary

  1. swelters
  2. sweltersome
  3. sweltery
  4. swelting
  5. sweltry
  6. swelts
  7. swen
  8. swene
  9. Swenglish
  10. Swensen
  11. Swensens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swelts (page history and authors); swelt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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