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Swelling   /swˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Swelling

noun
1.
An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.  Synonyms: lump, puffiness.
2.
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.  Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance.  "The hump of a camel" , "He stood on the rocky prominence" , "The occipital protuberance was well developed" , "The bony excrescence between its horns"
3.
The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).  Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency.


Swell

verb
(past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)
1.
Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.
2.
Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.  Synonym: puff up.
3.
Expand abnormally.  Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce.
4.
Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).  Synonym: well up.  "Smoke swelled from it"
5.
Come up, as of a liquid.  Synonym: well.  "The currents well up"
6.
Cause to become swollen.



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"Swelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyes, And cast a manly look upon my face; For nothing is so wild as I thy friend Till I have freed thee; still this swelling breast; I go thus from thee, and will never cease My vengeance, till I ...
— The Maids Tragedy • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... Merlin, between sleeping and waking, as the bells rang out, loud and low—distant and near—flowing like a rushing, swelling tide of music along the dark inlets of narrow streets—touching arid hearts with hope, as the rising water touches dry spots with green. Come you, too, out of your filthy holes and hovels—come to church as in the days when you were young and had mothers, and you, grisly, ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... he will be drowned," cried the Spaniard, now much more excited about the safety of his steed than he had been for his own. It did look rather bad for the big chestnut, as a large wave swelling in, almost took him off his feet. He ...
— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
... to eating too plentifully of new rice. Many who have recovered from Cholera become victims to a disease known as Beri-Beri, said to be caused by the rice and fish diet. The first symptom of Wet Beri-Beri is a swelling of the legs, like dropsy; that of Dry Beri-Beri is a wasting away of the limbs. Smallpox makes great ravages, and Measles is a common complaint. Lung and Bronchial affections are very rare. ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... frame itself is made up of narrow pieces, there is but little shrinkage in them. That shrinkage is all that affects the size of the whole structure, because wood does not shrink longitudinally to any appreciable extent. The shrinking or swelling of the panel does not affect the general size. The cross construction of the frame also prevents warping, since, in the best construction every joint is mortised and tenoned. The panel may simply be fastened on the back of the frame, but a better ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes


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