for-swelgan, w. acc., to swallow, consume: pret. sg. for-swealg, [1123], [2081].

[swellan], st. v., to swell: inf. þâ sió wund on-gan ... swêlan and swellan, [2714].

[sweltan], st. v., to die, perish: pret. sg. swealt, [1618], [2475]; draca morðre swealt (died a violent death), [893], [2783]; wundor-deáðe swealt, [3038]; hioro-dryncum swealt, [2359].

[swencan], w. v., to swink, oppress, strike: pret. sg. hine wundra þäs fela swencte (MS. swecte) on sunde, [1511].

ge-swencan, to oppress, strike, injure: pret. sg. syððan hine Hæðcyn ... flâne geswencte, [2439]; pret. part. synnum ge-swenced, [976]; hæðstapa hundum ge-swenced, [1369].—Comp. lyft-ge-swenced.

[sweng], st. m., blow, stroke: dat. sg. swenge, [1521], [2967]; swenge (with its stroke), [2687]; instr. pl. sweordes swengum, [2387].—Comp.: feorh-, hete-, heaðo-, heoro-sweng.

[swerian], st. v., to swear: pret. w. acc. I. ne me swôr fela âða on unriht (swore no false oaths), [2739]; he me âðas swôr, [472].

for-swerian, w. instr., to forswear, renounce (protect with magic formulæ?): pret. part. he sige-wæpnum for-sworen häfde, [805].

[swêg], st. m., sound, noise, uproar: nom. sg. swêg, [783]; hearpan swêg, [89], [2459], [3024]; sige-folca swêg, [645]; sang and swêg, [1064]; dat. sg. swêge, [1215].—Comp.: benc-, morgen-swêg.

[swêlan], w. v., to burn (here of wounds): inf. swêlan, [2714]. See [swælan].