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In some senses, swart is marked as obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
swart
UK /swɔː(ɹ)t/ US /swɔɹt/
adj 3noun 3verb 1name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
foolish, lame, living, prodigious, strange
VERB + SWART
crooked, name, take
SWART + NOUN
earth, warthog
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
1
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
A nation strange, with visage swart
2
Black.
3
Gloomy; malignant.
Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
noun
1
Black or dark dyestuff.
verb
1
To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
to swart a living part
[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — naturally having skin of a dark color
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
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A nation strange, with visage swart
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Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
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to swart a living part
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[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
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Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for
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