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Swelted vs Sweated - What's the difference?

swelted | sweated |

As verbs the difference between swelted and sweated

is that swelted is (swelt) while sweated is (sweat).

As an adjective sweated is

characterized by sweatshop conditions.

swelted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swelt)

    • Anagrams

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    swelt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Old English sweltan. Cognate to Dutch .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialect) To die.
  • (obsolete, outside, dialect) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
    • (Bishop Hall)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (swell)

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    sweated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sweat)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
  • * 1913 ,
  • *:“Do you like jennying?” he asked.
  • *:“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
  • *:“Is it sweated ?”
  • *:“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
  • * 1920 , Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy ,
    • So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades [...]