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.