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become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"

the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"

come up; "Tears well in her eyes"

become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"

the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"

come up, as of liquids; "Tears well in her eyes"

A swelling.

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.

To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.

To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.

To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.

To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.

To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.

To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.

To aggravate; to heighten.

To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.

To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.

Gradual increase.

Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

Increase in height; elevation; rise.

Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.

Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.

A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.

A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.

A showy, dashing person; a dandy.

Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.

A swelling.

A swelling.

To be inflated.

To increase in force, intensity, or volume; rise up; grow.

Pertaining to swells; dandified.

A billow.

A person of the ultrafashionable set.

To expand; increase in size, volume, or force; be in flated; be puffed up; as, to swell with importance.

To cause to rise or increase; inflate; puff up; make to grow louder and fuller; as, their voices swelled the chorus.

Act or state of swelling; increase in volume, force, value; gradual increase and decrease of sound; a long continuous wave or billow; gradual elevation of land; colloquially, a fashionable person.

Swelled, swollen.

Swelling.

Swelling.

To grow larger: to expand: to rise into waves: to heave: to be inflated: to bulge out: to grow louder: to be bombastic, to strut: to become elated, arrogant, or angry: to grow upon the view: to grow louder, as a note.

To increase the size of: to aggravate: to increase the sound of: to raise to arrogance:-pa.p. swelled or swollen.

Act of swelling: increase in size or sound: a gradual rise of ground: a wave: the waves or tides of the sea, esp. after a storm: a strutting foppish fellow, a dandy.

Increase in bulk or sound; waves of the sea.

Swelled or swollen.

To expand; rise into waves; heave; dilate; grow louder; be bombastic.

n. Act of swelling;-extension of bulk ;- a growing force or intensity ;-rising or increasing power in style; climax;-a gradual ascent or elevation of land ;-a wave or billow ; especially, a succession of large waves setting in a particular direction ;-the waves that roll and break on the shore ; the fluctuation of the sea after a storm;-in music, a gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound-generally indicated thus ;- a showily dressed but vulgar person ; a dandy-in contempt.