Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..

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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..
Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
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..
Pursy :: Pursy (a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence..
Booming :: Booming (a.) Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.
Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..
Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
Burnish :: Burnish (v. i.) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large..
Swelt :: Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
Catarrh :: Catarrh (n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder..
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Oedema :: Oedema (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..
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