WELT

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 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)

Sense 1

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.)

Derivation:

welt (beat severely with a whip or rod)

Sense 2

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)

Derivation:

welt (put a welt on)

• WELT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Context example:

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 (whip with a leather 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

Derivation:

welt (a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions)

Sense 2

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

Derivation:

welt (a raised or strengthened seam)