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swell
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- swell :increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- The music swelled to a crescendo
- swell :very good
- he did a bully job|a neat sports car|had a great time at the party|you look simply smashing|we had a grand old time
- swell :become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
- swell :expand abnormally
- The bellies of the starving children are swelling
- swell :come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- Strong emotions welled up|Smoke swelled from it
- swell :come up, as of a liquid
- Tears well in her eyes|the currents well up
- swell :cause to become swollen
- The water swells the wood
- swell :the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- swell :increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity