sweal
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English swelen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English swelan (“to burn, be burnt up, inflame”, st vb) (compare Old English swǣlan (“to burn”, wk vb)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *swelaną (“to smoulder, burn slowly, create a burningly cold sensation”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”). Cognate with Dutch zwelen (“to smoulder”), Low German swelen (“to smoulder”), German schwelen (“to smoulder”), Icelandic svala (“to cool”). Related to swelter.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːl
Verb
sweal (third-person singular simple present sweals, present participle swealing, simple past and past participle swealed)
- (intransitive) To burn slowly.
- (intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- (transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
- (transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
- (transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 13
- Here!—But you know, they can sweal a tumour away.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 13
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