| 释义 |
Noun: swelling sweling- An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- puffiness, lump - Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence - The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
- intumescence, intumescency
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"
Derived forms: swellings Type of: act, arise, behave, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, come up, develop, do, enlargement, expand, grow, increase, originate, projection, rise, rise up, spring up, surface, symptom, uprise Encyclopedia: Swell Swell, Gloucestershire Swelling |