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Swell   /swɛl/   Listen
Swell

noun
1.
The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.  Synonym: crestless wave.
2.
A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).
3.
A crescendo followed by a decrescendo.
4.
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.  Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik.
verb
(past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)
1.
Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.
2.
Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.  Synonym: puff up.
3.
Expand abnormally.  Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce.
4.
Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).  Synonym: well up.  "Smoke swelled from it"
5.
Come up, as of a liquid.  Synonym: well.  "The currents well up"
6.
Cause to become swollen.
adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"



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"Swell" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealthy drink Raise Gehenna with a gink; Pastry, terrapin, and cheeses Bring on gout and swell diseases. ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... Jim's cheek. "So," he said, facing her quickly, "for the sake of a lot of riff-raff and scum that's drifted here around us—jest for the sake of cuttin' a swell before them—you'll go out among the hounds ez allowed your mother was a Spanish nigger or a kanaka, ez called your father a pirate and landgrabber, ez much as allowed he was shot by some one or killed himself a purpose, ez said you was a heathen and a looney because ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... There in that dreadful battle, in consequence of the warriors slaying one another, a terrible river began to flow whose billowy current consisted of blood.[437] And that battle, O king, between the Kurus and the Pandavas, becoming fierce and awful, began to swell the population of Yama's kingdom. Then in that battle Bhima excited with wrath, fell with great impetuosity upon the elephant division (of the Kauravas) and began to send many to the regions of ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... even in the concise way, in which I have hitherto attempted it, would be to swell this introduction into a volume. I shall therefore, from this great period of his ministry, make only the following simple statement ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... port to port the summons flew, Rang o'er our German wave; The Oder on her harness drew, The Elbe girt on her glaive; Neckar and Weser swell the tide, Main flashes to the sun, Old feuds, old hates are dash'd aside, All German men are one! Hurrah! ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various


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