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 swollen

The adj swollen has 1 sense

• conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain -- (characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "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")