Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

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Nodosity :: Nodosity (n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Gradual increase.
Pod :: Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. i.) To swell out.
Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
Swelt :: Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.
Inturgescence :: Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled..
Ancome :: Ancome (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Swell :: Swell (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells..
Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Extuberate :: Extuberate (v. i.) To swell out.
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..
Chase :: Chase (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
Blain :: Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister..
Strangulate :: Strangles (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells..
Bigly :: Bigly (a.) In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently..
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