Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) 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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Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
Swelltoad :: Swellish (a.) Dandified; stylish.
Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..
Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..
Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm..
Tortulous :: Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
Boln :: Boln (v. i.) To swell; to puff.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..
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..
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom..
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
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..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note..
Apostemate :: Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Intumesce :: Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe..
Swell :: 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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