swell /swel/

1. To expand
2. To increase in volume
3. To be inflated
4. To bulge out
5. To grow louder
6. To rise into waves
7. To heave
8. To well up
9. To rise and fall in loudness
10. To be bombastic
11. To be elated or dilated with emotion
12. To give a feeling of expansion or welling up

1. To augment
2. To expand
3. To dilate
4. To fill full
5. To louden
6. To elate

1. The act, power, habit or condition of swelling
2. Distension
3. A heaving
4. A bulge
5. An enlargement (rare)
6. A loudening
7. A device in an organ for gradually varying loudness
8. A crescendo followed by a diminuendo (music)
9. An area of gently rising ground, an incline
10. A dandy, a fashionable or finely dressed person (slang)
11. A member of the governing class, a bigwig, an adept (slang)

A vague word of commendation (as being of, of the nature of, or befitting a swell)

swellˈdom noun (slang)

The fashionable world

swelled adjective

swellˈer noun

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• corneal lens
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