swollen

IPA: swˈoʊɫʌn

adjective

  • protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
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Examples of "swollen" in Sentences

  • There are pictures of me as a child with my eye all swollen from a bug bite.
  • "Look at how my mouth sticks out," he said of what he described as his swollen face.
  • He was home last night, still a little druggy and his mouth is very swollen from the surgery and packing.
  • The guts of the men sag hugely and the monstrous buttocks of the women seesaw painfully as they tread the boardwalk in swollen sneakers.
  • His face was iced up and swollen from the protracted effort of twenty-four hours, while his hands were so swollen that he could not close the fingers.
  • Instead of hair, her pale head was covered in swollen, reddish-purple growths the size of marbles, which sprouted from her hairline all the way down to the back of her neck.
  • On examining the right hypochondrium, which he described as swollen, there was evident indication of an enlarged liver, and he complained much of shooting pain in that region during a paroxysm of cough.
  • We had 2.5 weeks of newborn pics from before and … if the worst happened … we didn't want to remember him swollen from the steroids, with IVs in his skull, a central line in his leg, him in a medically induced coma with a machine breathing for him … Egads.

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