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[ swoh-luhn ] / ˈswoʊ lən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR swollen ON THESAURUS.COM
verba past participle of swell. adjectiveenlarged by or as byswelling; puffed up; tumid. turgid or bombastic. OTHER WORDS FROM swollenswol·len·ly, adverbswol·len·ness, nounun·swol·len, adjectiveWords nearby swollenswizzle, swizzle stick, swob, swoffing, swole, swollen, swollen head, swollen-headed, swoln, swonk, swonken Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for swollenSo the discs get all floppy, swollen, pop out left, pop out right. Why Is Louis C.K. So Funny? He Uses Humor as a Moral Compass.|Andrew Romano|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST But the attitude of doctors was that if the lymph glands were swollen it was a good sign of a body fighting infection. Sean Strub: Sex, AIDS, Politics and Survival|Tim Teeman|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST According to Robertson—not a registered dietician—low carb diets “build up clinkers” and “you get swollen joints, you get gout.” Diet Like Jesus: What the Bible Says About How to Eat|Candida Moss|October 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Lifting his swollen hands and visibly cut-up wrists as proof, he leads me through a trail of wounds. James McAvoy Tackles ‘Macbeth’|Abby Haglage|March 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“The art of biography has produced all these swollen books,” McMurtry told me. Larry McMurtry on the Villainous Custer and the Myths of the West|Nick Romeo|November 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST Seeing them, Avdotya could not restrain her tears; they simply spurted from her red and swollen eyes. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories|Ivan Turgenev With a sigh of relief she stretches out her aching and swollen arms. The Executioner's Knife|Eugne Sue Soon afterwards ten of his men came in, loaded with swollen wine-bags. The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I|Various Some of the southern goats have swollen ears, but what the cause of this trouble is no one has yet determined. Practical Angora Goat Raising|C. P. Bailey He had cried so that his eyes were all swollen up, and he was a sight to behold. Five Little Peppers at School|Margaret Sidney
British Dictionary definitions for swollen
verba past participle of swell adjectivetumid or enlarged by or as if by swelling turgid or bombastic Derived forms of swollenswollenly, adverbswollenness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to swollenbloated, inflated, inflamed, puffed, distended, puffy, tumescent, tumid, bulgy, distent |