swell

IPA: swˈɛɫ

noun

  • The act of swelling; increase in size.
  • A bulge or protuberance.
  • Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  • A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  • (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  • (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  • (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  • A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  • (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
  • (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
  • (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  • The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

verb

  • (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  • (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
  • (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
  • (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
  • (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
  • (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
  • To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  • To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
  • To protuberate; to bulge out.

adjective

  • (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
  • (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.

adverb

  • (Canada, US, informal) Very well.
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Examples of "swell" in Sentences

  • The tears swell up her eyes.
  • I've managed to swell the page to an ungodly size.
  • The increasing moons swell the lubricating shell fish.
  • A poultice of the plant has been used to treat swellings.
  • In the swelled condition they are pliable, elastic and strong.
  • In the swelled condition, they are pliable, elastic and strong.
  • At the height of the tourist season the population swells to 6000.
  • Numbers were expected to swell as the weather warmed into the summer.
  • With the ranks of the ministry swelling, the outreach also expanded quickly.
  • Decreasing pain correlated for the most part with the reduction in swelling.

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