Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..

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Beal :: Beal (v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple..
Augment :: Augment (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil..
Swoln :: Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.
Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..
Farce :: Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.
Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.
Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..
Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..
Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.
Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Convex :: Convex (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave..
Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.
Apostemate :: Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..
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