Definition of swollen

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Swollen () p. p. of Swell.

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High-wrought :: High-wrought (a.) Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion..
Hulchy :: Hulchy (a.) Swollen; gibbous.
Shoebill :: Shoebill (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak..
Billowy :: Billowy (a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Blown :: Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas..
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..
Spew :: Spew (v. i.) To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost..
Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor..
Blubbered :: Blubbered (p. p. & a.) Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip..
Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..
Gouty :: Gouty (a.) Swollen, as if from gout..
Detumescence :: Detumescence (n.) Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen.
Beblubber :: Beblubber (v. t.) To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered..
Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.
Unswell :: Unswell (v. t.) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
Extuberant :: Extuberant (a.) Swollen out; protuberant.
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot..
Erection :: Erection (n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue..
Varicose :: Varicose (a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers..
Turgescency :: Turgescency (n.) The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent..
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