swollen
Meaning of swollen
verb
- To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To cause to become bigger.
Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
- To grow gradually in force or loudness.
The organ music swelled.
- To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
- To be raised to arrogance.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
swelling words a swelling style
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
A cask swells in the middle.
adjective
Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
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Hyphenation of swollen
swollen
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- swollen is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
swollen synonyms
Meaning bloated:
bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
Meaning distended:
Meaning conceited:
conceited, egotistic, egotistical, vain
Meaning flooding:
Translation of swollen
- French: présomptueux, prétentieux
- Spanish: presuntuoso, presuntuosa, engreído, engreída, pretencioso, pretenciosa
- German: hochmütig
- Italian: presuntuoso, vanitoso
Words that rhyme with swollen
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