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Adjective: swollen swowlun- Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
"so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"
- conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain, swellheaded [N. Amer]
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"
See also: proud, swelling Type of: act, arise, behave, come up, develop, do, expand, grow, increase, originate, rise, rise up, spring up, surface, uprise Encyclopedia: Swell Swell, Gloucestershire |