Definition of swell

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Swell (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.

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Bulge :: Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Swelldom :: Swell (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Knot :: Knot (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance..
Jointworm :: "Jointworm (n.) The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop..
Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
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..
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent..
Boln :: Boln (v. i.) To swell; to puff.
Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Suricat :: Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style..
Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up..
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..
Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..
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