Definition for SWELT

SWELT, v.i. [Sax. sweltan; Guth. swiltan; ga-swiltan, to perish, to die; properly, to fail, to swoon. Qu. is not this formed on the root of wilt?]

To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] – Chaucer.

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