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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Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Emphysema :: Emphysema (n.) A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.
Bulge :: Bulge (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors..
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm..
Throstling :: Throstling (n.) A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..
Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
Chilblain :: Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation..
Overswell :: Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
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