A-swebban
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - a-swebban
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- a-swebban
- p. -swefede, pl. -swefedon; pp. -swefed; [a intensive, swebban to put to sleep] To sooth, appease, set at rest, put to death, destroy; sopire, sedare, necare, dolere :-- He ðone storm aswefede and gestilde tempestatem sopivit, Bd. 3, 15; S. 542, 5 : Exon. 58 b ; Th. 210, 15 ; Ph. 186. Sweordum aswebban to put to death with swords, Andr. Kmbl. 143; An. 72. He his ealdordóm synnum aswefede his eldership he had destroyed by sins, Cd. 160; Th. 199, 9; Exod. 336. a-swebban