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Swelled

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Adjective

1. big, swelled, vainglorious

feeling self-importance

Example Sentences:
'too big for his britches'
'had a swelled head'
'he was swelled with pride'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Swelled

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verbWord forms: swells, swelling, swelled, swollen or swelled
1. 
to grow or cause to grow in size, esp as a result of internal pressure
Compare contract (sense 1), contract (sense 3)
2. 
to expand or cause to expand at a particular point or above the surrounding level; protrude
3. 
to grow or cause to grow in size, amount, intensity, or degree
the party is swelling with new recruits
4. 
to puff or be puffed up with pride or another emotion
5. (intransitive)
(of seas or lakes) to rise in waves
6. (intransitive)
to well up or overflow
7. (transitive)
to make (a musical phrase) increase gradually in volume and then diminish
noun
8. 
a. 
the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
b. 
a succession of waves or a single large wave
9. 
a swelling or being swollen; expansion
10. 
an increase in quantity or degree; inflation
11. 
a bulge; protuberance
12. 
a gentle hill
13. informal
a person who is very fashionably dressed
14. informal
a man of high social or political standing
15. music
a crescendo followed by an immediate diminuendo
16. Also called: swell organ music
a. 
a set of pipes on an organ housed in a box (swell box) fitted with a shutter operated by a pedal, which can be opened or closed to control the volume
b. 
the manual on an organ controlling this
Compare choir (sense 4), great (sense 21)
adjective
17. informal
stylish or grand
18. slang
excellent; first-class

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Swelled

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verb intransitiveWord forms: swelled, swelled or ˈswollen, ˈswelling
1. 
to increase in volume or become larger as a result of pressure from within; expand; dilate
2. 
to become larger at a particular point; curve out; bulge; protrude
3. 
to extend beyond or above the normal or surrounding level
4. 
to form swells, or large waves
said of the sea
5. 
to be or become filled (with pride, indignation, self-importance, etc.)
6. 
to increase within a person, as a feeling
the anger swelling in him
7. 
to increase in size, force, intensity, degree, etc.
membership swelled to a thousand
8. 
to increase in volume or loudness
verb transitive
9. 
to cause to swell
; specif.,
a. 
to cause to increase in size, volume, extent, degree, etc.
b. 
to cause to bulge or protrude
c. 
to fill with pride, indignation, etc.; inflate; puff
d. 
to cause (a tone, chord, etc.) to increase in loudness
noun
10. 
a part that swells, bulge; curve; protuberance
; specif.,
a. 
a large wave that moves steadily without breaking
b. 
a piece of rising ground; rounded hill or slope
11. 
a swelling or being swollen
12. 
an increase in size, amount, extent, degree, etc.
13.  Informal
a. 
a person who is strikingly stylish, esp. in dress
b. 
a person of social prominence
14. 
an increase in loudness of sound
15.  Music
a. 
a gradual increase in volume (crescendo), usually followed by a gradual decrease (decrescendo)
b. 
a sign (< >) indicating this
c. 
a device for controlling the loudness of tones, as in an organ
adjective
16.  Informal
stylish; very fashionable
17.  Slang
first-rate; excellent
a generalized epithet of approval

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Swelled

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v. swelled, swelled or swol·len (swōlən), swell·ing, swells
v.intr.
1. To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
2.
a. To increase in force, size, number, or degree: Membership in the club swelled.
b. To grow in loudness or intensity: "The din in front swelled to a tremendous chorus" (Stephen Crane).
3. To bulge out, as a sail.
4.
a. To rise or extend above the surrounding level, as clouds.
b. To rise in swells, as the sea.
5.
a. To be or become filled or puffed up, as with pride, arrogance, or anger.
b. To rise from within: Rage swelled within me.
v.tr.
1. To cause to increase in volume, size, number, degree, or intensity: The governor's full public disclosure only swelled the chorus of protests.
2. To fill with emotion.
n.
1.
a. The act or process of swelling.
b. The condition of being swollen.
2. A swollen part; a bulge or protuberance.
3. A long wave on water that moves continuously without breaking.
4. A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
5. Informal One who is fashionably dressed or socially prominent: society swells.
6. Music
a. A crescendo followed by a gradual diminuendo.
b. The sign indicating such a crescendo.
c. A device on an instrument, such as an organ or harpsichord, for regulating volume.
adj. swell·er, swell·est
Informal
1. Fashionably elegant; stylish.
2. Excellent; wonderful: had a swell time.

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