Swollen

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swell \Swell\, v. i. [imp. {Swelled}; p. p. {Swelled} or
     {Swollen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swelling}.] [AS. swellan; akin to
     D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella,
     Sw. sv[aum]lla.]
     1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface
        or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of


        the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a
        bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
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     2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase
        in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its
        banks; sounds swell or diminish.
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     3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as,
        in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
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     4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
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              You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do
              at scarlet.                           --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
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     6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling
        words; a swelling style.
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     7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the
        middle.
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     8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
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              Your equal mind yet swells not into state. --Dryden.
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     9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
        "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" --Shak.
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     10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added,
         swell to a great amount.
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     11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to
         strut; to look big.
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               Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swollen \Swoll"en\,
     p. p. of {Swell}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swollen \Swoll"en\, a.
     Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen
     eyes; swollen streams.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swell
       adj : very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a
             great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
             [syn: {bang-up}, {bully}, {corking}, {cracking}, {dandy},
              {great}, {groovy}, {keen}, {neat}, {nifty}, {not
             bad(p)}, {peachy}, {slap-up}, {smashing}]
       n 1: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea [syn:
             {crestless wave}]
       2: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
       3: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
       4: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
          [syn: {dandy}, {dude}, {fop}, {gallant}, {sheik}, {beau},
          {fashion plate}, {clotheshorse}]
       v 1: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The
            music swelled to a crescendo"
       2: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother
          was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
          [syn: {puff up}]
       3: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are
          swelling" [syn: {swell up}, {intumesce}, {tumefy}, {tumesce}]
       4: as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things;
          "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it" [syn:
           {well up}]
       5: come up; "Tears well in her eyes" [syn: {well}]
       6: cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
       [also: {swollen}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swollen
       adj 1: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
              children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
              distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy)
              lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy
              tumid flesh" [syn: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {puffy},
               {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
       2: abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is
          sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins";
          "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins
          were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge
          blood-swollen mosquitoes" [syn: {distended}]
       3: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense
          of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of
          self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of
          others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for
          normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and
          arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: {conceited}, {egotistic},
           {egotistical}, {self-conceited}, {swollen-headed}, {vain}]
       4: overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" [syn: {flooding},
           {in flood(p)}, {overflowing}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swollen
       See {swell}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  194 Moby Thesaurus words for "swollen":
     SRO, accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, augmented,
     aureate, beefed-up, beefy, bellied, big, big-bellied, bloated,
     bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy,
     brawny, brimful, brimming, broadened, bug-eyed, bulged, bulging,
     burly, bursting, buxom, capacity, chock-full, choked, chubby,
     chuck-full, chunky, congested, corpulent, cram-full, crammed,
     crowded, deepened, dilated, distended, drenched, dropsical, dumpy,
     edematous, elated, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged,
     euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, extended, extravagant, farci,
     fat, fattish, filled, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy,
     flowery, flush, flushed, flushed with pride, formal, full,
     full to bursting, fustian, gassy, glutted, goggle, goggled, gorged,
     grandiloquent, gross, heavyset, hefty, heightened, high-flown,
     high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, hippy, hyperemic,
     hypertrophied, imposing, in spate, incrassate, increased, inflated,
     intensified, jam-packed, jammed, jazzed up, lusty, magnified,
     magniloquent, meaty, mouthy, multiplied, obese, outsized,
     overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing,
     overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded,
     oversized, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight,
     overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, paunchy, plenary,
     plethoric, plump, podgy, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, portly,
     potbellied, pouched, pretentious, proliferated, proud, pudgy,
     puffed up, puffy, pursy, raised, ready to burst, reinforced,
     replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, running over, satiated,
     saturated, self-important, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat,
     squatty, stalwart, standing room only, stiffened, stilted, stocky,
     stout, strapping, strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy,
     supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled,
     swelling, tall, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened, top-heavy,
     topful, tubby, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid,
     ventose, ventricose, well-fed, widened, windy