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Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) 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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Upswell :: Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

Swollen :: Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population..

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..

Urocele :: Urocele (n.) A morbid swelling of the scrotum due to extravasation of urine into it.

Hoarseness :: Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords..

Strumatic :: Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses..

Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..

Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..

Infarce :: Infarce (v. t.) To stuff; to swell.

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Swell :: Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swel.

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects..

Node :: Node (n.) A swelling.

Knap :: Knap (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop..

Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..

Bur Fish :: Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish..

Smut :: Smut (v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis..