Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sweal
Participle: swealed
Gerund: swealing
Indicative
Present
| I | sweal |
| you | sweal |
| he;she;it | sweals |
| we | sweal |
| you | sweal |
| they | sweal |
Perfect
| I | have swealed |
| you | have swealed |
| he;she;it | has swealed |
| we | have swealed |
| you | have swealed |
| they | have swealed |
Past
| I | swealed |
| you | swealed |
| he;she;it | swealed |
| we | swealed |
| you | swealed |
| they | swealed |
Pluperfect
| I | had swealed |
| you | had swealed |
| he;she;it | had swealed |
| we | had swealed |
| you | had swealed |
| they | had swealed |
Future
| I | will sweal |
| you | will sweal |
| he;she;it | will sweal |
| we | will sweal |
| you | will sweal |
| they | will sweal |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swealed |
| you | will have swealed |
| he;she;it | will have swealed |
| we | will have swealed |
| you | will have swealed |
| they | will have swealed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sweal |
| you | sweal |
| he;she;it | sweal |
| we | sweal |
| you | sweal |
| they | sweal |
Perfect
| I | have swealed |
| you | have swealed |
| he;she;it | have swealed |
| we | have swealed |
| you | have swealed |
| they | have swealed |
Imperfect
| I | swealed |
| you | swealed |
| he;she;it | swealed |
| we | swealed |
| you | swealed |
| they | swealed |
Pluperfect
| I | had swealed |
| you | had swealed |
| he;she;it | had swealed |
| we | had swealed |
| you | had swealed |
| they | had swealed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sweal |
| you | would sweal |
| he;she;it | would sweal |
| we | would sweal |
| you | would sweal |
| they | would sweal |
Perfect
| I | would have swealed |
| you | would have swealed |
| he;she;it | would have swealed |
| we | would have swealed |
| you | would have swealed |
| they | would have swealed |
Imperative
| you | sweal |
| we | Let's sweal |
| you | sweal |
Verbs conjugated like 'sweal'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sweal'
seal,
sheal,
steal,
swear,
sweat,
swell,
weal,
aneal,
beal,
deal,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- waste away
- worsen
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English swelen, from Old English swelan (“to burn, be burnt up, inflame”) (compare Old English swǣlan (“to burn”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swelan, from Proto-Germanic *swelaną (“to smoulder, burn slowly, create a burningly cold sensation”), from 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. See: Middle English '
swelen', Old English '
swelan', Proto-Germanic '
*swelaną', Dutch '
zwelen', Low Saxon 'swelen', German, old spelling '
schwelen', Icelandic '
svala'.
Sample Sentences
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[M]ind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a' the house scouring to get out the grease again. [1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 104:]
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"He thinks it's only a tumour!" cried Annie to her mother. "And he can sweal it away." [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Baxter Dawes”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 377:]