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Synonyms of swelled
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Verb
1. swell, increase
usage:
increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
2. swell, puff up, act, behave, do
usage:
become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
3. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, expand
usage:
expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
4. well up, swell, originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
usage:
come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
5. well, swell, surface, come up, rise up, rise
usage:
come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
6. swell, grow
usage:
cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
Adjective
1. big, swelled, vainglorious, proud (vs. humble)
usage:
feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
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