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Swelled   /swɛld/   Listen
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Swell  v. t.  (past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)  
1.
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. "(The Church) swells her high, heart-cheering tone."
2.
To aggravate; to heighten. "It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge."
3.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
4.
(Mus.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.


Swell  v. i.  (past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)  
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
4.
To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. "You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet."
5.
To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
6.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
7.
To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
8.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly. "Your equal mind yet swells not into state."
9.
To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"
10.
To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
11.
To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. "Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock."





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"Swelled" Quotes from Famous Books



... obligations was primarily sought by an immense number, in plunging into the abyss of revolution. And a great proportion of the Southern merchants, with full intent to defraud their creditors, by lighting the flames of civil war, in 1860 swelled their indebtedness to their Northern friends to the utmost. This was low knavery seeking protection behind the black mantle of treason. If the facts could be fully laid bare, it would be found that disinclination to pay ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... failed him, and he could only stand and look down upon them, convulsive sobs rising in his throat. Suddenly a little red-legged Turco, weeping too, snatched off his fez and shouted "Vive la France!" and the cheer was taken up and repeated and repeated, until it swelled to a vast roar. As the train rolled out of the station, the crowd, bareheaded, ...
— The Destroyer - A Tale of International Intrigue • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... St Jean de Maurienne is twelve leagues, and I found myself so tired with walking, and my legs from being swelled gave me so much pain, that I determined to give up the gloriole of making the whole journey on foot as I intended and to remain here for two days to repose and then profit by the first conveyance that might pass to ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... and the blue veins swelled on her white forehead. "You hateful, brown serpent! Did Gorgo teach you such things as this? It ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... of the great youth swelled within him. As truly a son of the wilderness as primitive man had been thousands of years ago, before civilization had begun, when he depended upon the acuteness of his senses to protect him from monstrous wild beasts, he was as much at home now as the ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler


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