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Swollen

adjective

1.

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain. "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"

Swell

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.

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"Swollen" Quotes from Famous Books

... inter-Andean tableland of Ecuador and the Amazon river. A river called the Paute dashes through the eastern Andes from the valley of Cuenca; and a second, the Zamora, has broken through the same range from the basin of Loja. Swollen by their many affluents, they reach the lowlands and unite their waters to form the Santiago, which flows into the Maranon at the head of the Pongo de Manseriche. There is but little known of a trustworthy ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... battered the walls with his rams, and sapped them with mines. But finding that by these means he made no satisfactory progress, he had recourse shortly to wholly novel proceedings. The river Mygdonius (now the Jerujer), swollen by the melting of the snows in the Mons Masius, had overflowed its banks and covered with an inundation the plain in which Nisibis stands. Sapor saw that the forces of nature might be employed to advance ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire • George Rawlinson

... of the ploughed land crumbled beneath her heavy tread. The north wind grew stronger. When she reached the edge of the maple wood and looked up with swollen, tear-blurred eyes, she saw the grey branches moved by the wind, and the red squirrels leaped from branch to branch and tree to tree as if blown by the same air. She wandered up one side of the clearing and down the other, sometimes wading knee-deep in loud rustling maple ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... 1851, and was announced to run for about three months, was not completed in that paper until April 1, 1852. It had been contemplated as a mere magazine tale of perhaps a dozen chapters, but once begun it could no more be controlled than the waters of the swollen Mississippi, bursting through a crevasse in its levees. The intense interest excited by the story, the demands made upon the author for more facts, the unmeasured words of encouragement to keep on in her good work that poured in from ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... Miss Grandison. The darkness of the evening prevented him from observing her swollen eyes and agitated countenance. She sprang out of the carriage in silence, and immediately ran up into her room. As for Glastonbury, he only observed it was very cold, and entered ...

— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

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