ppl. a. dial. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Overpowered with heat; scorched; ‘broiled,’ ‘melted.’

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a. 1640.  Day, Peregr. Schol. (1881), 54. The beauteous flowers … were nothing else but swelted weeds and fruitless mosse.

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a. 1800.  Pegge, Suppl. Grose (1814), Swelted and Swelter’d, overpowered with heat. Derb.

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1848.  A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Words, s.v., It’s so warm! and Maria’s very swelted.

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