Definition of swell

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Swell (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

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Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
Cynanche :: Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing..
Overswell :: Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.
Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Gibbous :: Gibbous (a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon..
Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
Bag :: Bag (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter..
Swell :: Swell (n.) The act of swelling.
Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
Bombast :: Bombast (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.
Swelt :: Swelltoad (n.) A swellfish.
Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Estuate :: Estuate (v. i.) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
Surgeon :: Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood..
Urcelate :: Urcelate (a.) Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contrasted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla..
Undulatory :: Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
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