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Swell v. t. (past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)

1.

To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. "(The Church) swells her high, heart-cheering tone."

2.

To aggravate; to heighten. "It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge."

3.

To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.

4.

(Mus.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.

Swell v. i. (past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)

1.

To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

2.

To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

3.

To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.

4.

To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. "You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet."

5.

To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.

6.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

7.

To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.

8.

To be elated; to rise arrogantly. "Your equal mind yet swells not into state."

9.

To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"

10.

To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

11.

To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. "Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock."

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Etymology of 'Swelled'

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"Swelled" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ashford, when they had gone there with their mother, for she now and then took them with her when she had something from the shop to carry besides her bundle of hose. At length they came to the foot of an open hill, which swelled to a considerable height, with a round and climbable side, on which grew a wilderness of bushes, amid which lay scattered masses of gray crag. A small winding path went up this, and they followed it. It ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... embodied, that his house might again be elevated, and that his descendants might know him as the one to whom they were indebted for its rise. Delme's ambitious thoughts were created amidst dangers and toil, in a foreign land, and far from those who shared his name. But his heart swelled high with them as he again trod his native soil in peace—as he gazed on the home of his fathers, and communed with those nearest and dearest to him on earth. Sir Henry considered it incumbent on him to exert every means that lay in his ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

... Around us swelled the incessant tumult of the ball, music and the blended harmony of many voices, rustle and whisper of skirt and silk, and the swish! swish! of feet across ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... in the padded seclusion of the president's inner office, while two blocks away swelled a storm, whose echoes only reached them in the sharp staccato of the ticker in the corner as it vomited a strip of white paper. Wimperley stood there, the strip slipping between his fingers, while selling orders began to pour in to Philadelphia, and the price of Consolidated crumbled like ...

— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... We had about finished up, when my partner said to my old friend, "I would like to make a bet, but I am unlucky; will you bet this $50 for me?" He took the $50, put it up, and won. Then he put up $50 for himself, and lost. My partner wanted to know how he had made such a mistake, when he swelled up like a porpoise, and said: "I believe that is the same fellow that beat me out of my money before." He walked away, and my partner followed him. They were standing at the bar when I came up, and I invited all hands to join me in a drink. Everybody accepted the ...

— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

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