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for-sweltan
/forsweltan /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Verb
Verb Class: Strong
for-sweltan
, he -swilt; p. -swealt, pl. -swulton; pp. -swolten To die away, perish; permŏri :-- Manig wíf forswilt for hire bearne many a woman dies because of her child, Bt. 31, 1; Fox 112, 11, note 17. Forswealt disparuit, Cot. 65: 190.
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for-sweltan
. Add: (1) of persons, to die, perish. [He shal þe makie to forswelten, Jul. 19, 7.] (2) of a (visible) thing, to die away, fade away, disappear :-- Forswealt disparuit (omnis praestigiarum scaena ... ut fumus evanescens disparuit, Ald. 57, 13), Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 50: 26, 66.
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