WELT
Dictionary entry overview: What does welt mean?
• WELT (noun)
The noun WELT has 2 senses:
1. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
2. a raised or strengthened seam
Familiarity information: WELT used as a noun is rare.
• WELT (verb)
The verb WELT has 2 senses:
1. beat severely with a whip or rod
2. put a welt on
Familiarity information: WELT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WELT (noun)
Meaning:
A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
wale; weal; welt; wheal
Hypernyms ("welt" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Meaning:
A raised or strengthened seam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("welt" is a kind of...):
seam (joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces)
• WELT (verb)
Meaning:
Beat severely with a whip or rod
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
welt; trounce; lash; flog; whip; lather; slash; strap
Context examples:
The teacher often flogged the students / The children were severely trounced
Hypernyms (to "welt" is one way to...):
beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "welt"):
flagellate; scourge (whip)
leather (beat with a lather strap)
horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)
switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)
cowhide (flog with a cowhide)
cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)
birch (whip with a birch twig)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to welt the prisoners
Meaning:
Put a welt on
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
welt the shoes
Hypernyms (to "welt" is one way to...):
add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
