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Verb: swell (swelled,swollen) swel- Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
"The music swelled to a crescendo" - Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
- puff up - Expand abnormally
"The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
- swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
"Smoke swelled from it"
- well up - Come up, as of a liquid
- well - Cause to become swollen
"The water swells the wood"
Noun: swell swel- The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- crestless wave - A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- A crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, fashion plate, clotheshorse
Adjective: swell (sweller,swellest) swel- Very good
- bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, grouse [Austral, NZ], ripper [Austral]
Derived forms: swollen, sweller, swelled, swelling, swellest, swells See also: good, swelling Type of: act, adult male, arise, behave, come up, crescendo, develop, do, elevation, expand, grow, increase, man, moving ridge, natural elevation, originate, rise, rise up, spring up, surface, uprise, wave Encyclopedia: Swell Swell, Gloucestershire |