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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Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..
Swell :: 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..
Extumescence :: Extumescence (n.) A swelling or rising.
Gourdy :: Gourdy (a.) Swelled in the legs.
Bolstered :: Bolstered (a.) Swelled out.
Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..
Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..
Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.
Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..
Swollen :: Swelled (p. p.) of Swel.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..
Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
Undulatory :: Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Suricat :: Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
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