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[swoh-luhn]

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verb

a past participle of swell.

adjective

enlarged by or as by swelling; puffed up; tumid.

turgid or bombastic.

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Related forms

swol·len·ly, adverb

swol·len·ness, noun

un·swol·len, adjective

Example Sentences

Raise the swollen joint so that it is higher than your heart, if possible.

He went to two different doctors for the swollen leg, caused by his compromised circulatory system from the cancer.

China's swollen reserves reflect its current-account surpluses and its exchange-rate policy.

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Raise the swollen joint so that it is higher than your heart, if possible.

He went to two different doctors for the swollen leg, caused by his compromised circulatory system from the cancer.

China's swollen reserves reflect its current-account surpluses and its exchange-rate policy.

One by one the crew members stumble out, vomiting yellow and white foam, their faces horrifically reddened and swollen.

They found some colony members with bright red swollen abdomens.

Mozart's body was said to be so swollen in his dying days that he could not even turn over in bed.

Do not start the beer until the yeast packet has swollen.

He tries to snare one of the five or six invitingly swollen bags that sit in the bottom of the dumpster.

Her eyelids and the areas around them were swollen and red.

Shop for shoes at the end of the day when your feet are already swollen and tired.

Swollen government coffers could exaggerate these bad habits.

His left hand was swollen and oozing pus, forcing him to limp on his three good.

Finding the reason for humanity's swollen skull undoubtedly will take more brainpower.

His foot is swollen and almost as green as his garment.

The finger was so swollen he's been unable to remove a ring from.

The student's right leg had swollen to twice its normal size, and he was coughing up blood.

Recession and aggressive fiscal stimulus have hugely swollen the federal deficit.

The researchers described the virus after identifying it in the swollen lymph nodes of infected patients.

He wore pajamas and a bathrobe, and a swollen bare foot was propped up on an ottoman.

We could have met for lunch somewhere, you with your shoulder and me with ice packs on my golf-size swollen jawŠ.

He has seen the swollen lips of the man he battered and also the swollen eyes of the mother bawling nearby.

Moreover, even experts have been surprised by how rapidly the nation has swollen.

Above a cold, swollen sea, a sunny day gives way as clouds wrap the sky in silver gauze.

Our swollen red giant sun gives way to the night sky.

Memphis begins at the river, wide and brown and swollen with the rains of spring.

Medicaid enrolment may still be swollen by recession.

She knew the situation was serious once her lymph nodes became swollen.

Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid-a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

Non-pitting edema does not leave this type of dent when pressing on the swollen area.

The result is a great deal of protein deficiency, visible in the swollen limbs of so many of the children.

Their hands are cracked and swollen and their rears are so sore that sitting has become an exquisite test of pain management.

The lancelet's nerve cord is slightly swollen near its head, but this bulge is not yet a brain.

His body has swollen to an enormous size and is greatly discolored.

The monetary base in big economies has been swollen by lots of liquidity from central banks.

And there is nothing more mundane here than the swollen door to my rental apartment.

The swollen right kidney measured about eight centimeters.

Tax receipts that had been swollen by booms in consumer spending and housing have shrivelled.

If he were inventing, he wouldn't invent the chimpanzee's swollen belly.

With a plane, the fit of swollen doors and warped drawers can.

Many nationals find work instead on swollen government payrolls, underwritten by petrodollars.

His hands were so swollen by then that he had to take off his wedding ring, his wife added.

More irritated as their pr puff has swollen along with the price while the quality of writing has nose-dived.

Britain's swollen budget deficits need to be brought down, but the cutting must be done wisely.

Operators of a nuclear reactor are hunkering down to defend it against a swollen river at its doorstep.

But by morning, the skin on the entire lower half of his face would be red and swollen and as angry-looking as a slap.

Her eyes were blackened, her face swollen and bloodied, her voice weak from crying.

Bowman for the apprehension of his murderer, was swollen by the contribution of.

The health care provider will look in the mouth and throat for swollen tonsils.

At several points the swollen streams have overlapped their banks and burst through the levees.

The patients showed a significant reduction in symptoms, which include swollen and tender joints.

She suffered a swollen eye but refused medical attention, the police said.

It usually affects only one eye and is accompanied by nearby swollen lymph.

If you have swollen lymph nodes and a scratch or bite from a cat, your health care provider may suspect cat scratch disease.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.

Pathology. to increase abnormally in size, as by inflation, distention, accumulation of fluids, or the like: Her ankles swelled from standing.

to rise in waves, as the sea.

to well up, as a spring or as tears.

to bulge out, as a sail or the middle of a cask.

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to grow in amount, degree, force, etc.

to increase gradually in volume or intensity, as sound: The music swelled.

to arise and grow within one, as a feeling or emotion.

to become puffed up with pride.

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verb (used with object)

10.

to cause to grow in bulk.

11.

to cause to increase gradually in loudness: to swell a musical tone.

12.

to cause (a thing) to bulge out or be protuberant.

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to increase in amount, degree, force, etc.

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to affect with a strong, expansive emotion.

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15.

to puff up with pride.

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noun

16.

the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.

17.

inflation or distention.

18.

a protuberant part.

19.

a wave, especially when long and unbroken, or a series of such waves.

20.

a gradually rising elevation of the land.

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an increase in amount, degree, force, etc.

22.

a gradual increase in loudness of sound.

23.

Music.

a gradual increase (crescendo) followed by a gradual decrease (diminuendo) in loudness or force of musical sound.

the sign (< >) for indicating this.

a device, as in an organ, by which the loudness of tones may be varied.

24.

a swelling of emotion within one.

25.

Slang.

a fashionably dressed person; dandy.

a socially prominent person.

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adjective Informal.

26.

(of things) stylish; elegant: a swell hotel.

27.

(of persons) fashionably dressed or socially prominent.

28.

first-rate; fine: a swell party.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English swellen (v.), Old English swellan; cognate with Dutch zwellen, German schwellen, Old Norse svella; akin to Gothic ufswalleins pride

Related forms

re·swell, verb, -swelled, -swelled or -swol·len, -swell·ing.

un·der·swell, verb (used without object), -swelled, -swelled or -swol·len, -swell·ing.

un·der·swell, noun

un·swelled, adjective

Synonyms
1. distend, expand. 5. protrude. 10. inflate, expand. 17. swelling. 18. bulge. 19. billow. 27, 28. grand.

Antonyms
1. contract. 13. decrease, diminish.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

swollen (ˈswəʊlən)

—vb
1.	a past participle of swell

—*adj*
2.	tumid or enlarged by or as if by swelling
3.	turgid or bombastic

'swollenly

—*adv*

'swollenness

—n

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Word Origin & History

swollen

early 14c., pp. of swell (v.); from O.E. geswollen, pp. of swellan.

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swell

early 13c., "a morbid swelling," from swell (v.). In ref. to a rise of the sea, it is attested from c.1600. The meaning "wealthy, elegant person" is first recorded 1786; hence the adj. meaning "fashionably dressed or equipped" (1810), both from the notion of "puffed-up, pompous"

behavior. The sense of "good, excellent" first occurs 1897, and as a stand-alone expression of satisfaction it is recorded from 1930 in Amer.Eng.

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Slang Dictionary

swell definition

mod.
fine; excellent. (Also sarcastic use.) : Where did you get that swell hat?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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