Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

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Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Plump :: Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped..
Swoln :: Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams..
Swell :: Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swel.
Anticor :: Anticor (n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart..
Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..
Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big..
Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
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..
Bulk :: Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell..
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..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity..
Bulge :: Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall..
Belly :: Belly (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge..
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..
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..
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