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Swollen   /swˈoʊlən/   Listen
Swollen

adjective
1.
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.  Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain.  "An attitude of self-conceited arrogance" , "An egotistical disregard of others" , "So swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty" , "Growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary" , "Vain about her clothes"


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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"Swollen" Quotes from Famous Books



... airborne transmission also possible; recent plague epidemics occurred in areas of Asia, Africa, and South America associated with rural areas or small towns and villages; manifests as fever, headache, and painfully swollen lymph nodes; disease progresses rapidly and without antibiotic treatment leads to pneumonic form with a death rate in excess of 50%. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever - tick-borne viral disease; infection may also result from exposure ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... a game of bagatelle between two convalescents. When he returned to the little sitting-room they were still standing by the hearth, talking in low voices. Gratian must surely have been stooping over the fire, for her face was red, almost swollen, and her eyes looked as if ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... firmly in check, for with plenty of small game everywhere, all wolves are minded to go quietly about their own business and let the caribou follow their own ways. When October came it brought the big stags into the open,—splendid, imposing beasts, with swollen necks and fierce red eyes and long white manes tossing in the wind. Then the wolves had to stand aside; for the stags roamed over all the land, pawing the moss in fury, bellowing their hoarse challenge, and charging ...
— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long
... probably," surmised the agent), and two commercial gentlemen from the smoker whiling away a commercially unproductive hiatus by playing pinochle on a suitcase held across their knees. Glancing at the vast, swollen, blue-black billows rolling up the sky, Banneker guessed that their game would ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... swollen by the storm full to its banks, and the willow trees dipped their half-drowned branches into its water. Wherever there was a gap between them, you could see it flow, red and muddy, with the stumps upon it. But the little figure ran on and on; never looking, never thinking; panting, panting! There, ...
— Dream Life and Real Life • Olive Schreiner


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