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  • Definition
    • 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

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