Overview of verb swell

The verb swell has 6 senses

• swell -- (increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo")


• swell, puff up -- (become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son")


• swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce -- (expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling")


• well up, swell -- (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it")


• well, 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")

Overview of adj swelled

The adj swelled has 1 sense

• big, swelled, vainglorious -- (feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride")