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swollen

 
Adjective swollen has 4 senses
  1. bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
    Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
  2. distended, swollen - abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"
    Antonym: contracted (indirect, via expanded)
  3. conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain - characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
    Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
  4. flooding, in flood, overflowing, swollen - overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
    Antonym: low (indirect, via high)
Verb swell has 6 senses
  1. swell - increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
    --1 is one way to
    increase
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
    --2 is one way to act, behave, do
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
    --3 is one way to expand
    Derived form: noun swelling1
    Sample sentence:
    Did his feet swell?
  4. well up, swell - as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
    --4 is one way to originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  5. well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
    --5 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
    Sample sentence:
    Something is ----ing PP
  6. swell - cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
    --6 is one way to
    grow
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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