Word Meanings - SWELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SWELL

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. Sir W. Scott. 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. Dryden. 9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" Shak. 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. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWELL)

• Abound
• Stream
• swell
• flow
• increase
• overflow
• superabound
• luxuriate
• teem
• swarm
• flourish
• prevail
• be plentiful
• wanton
• revel
• multiply
• Amplify
• Enrich
• enlarge
• augment
• dilate
• develop
• expatiate
• expand
• discuss
• unfold
• extend
• Cockney
• Londoner
• citizen
• Dilate
• Stretch
• widen
• distend
• descant
• Enlarge
• broaden
• stretch out
• stretch

Related words: (words related to SWELL)

• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• COCKNEY
  child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg , AS. 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash . This great
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.