Swollen
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
swollen
adj 1: 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" [syn:
{conceited}, {egotistic}, {egotistical}, {self-
conceited}, {swollen}, {swollen-headed}, {vain}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swell \Swell\, v. i. [imp. {Swelled}; p. p. {Swelled} or
{Swollen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swelling}.] [AS. swellan; akin to
D. zwellen, OS. & OHG. swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella,
Sw. sv[aum]lla.]
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.
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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.
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3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as,
in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
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4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
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You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do
at scarlet. --Sir W.
Scott.
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5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
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6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling
words; a swelling style.
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7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the
middle.
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8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
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Your equal mind yet swells not into state. --Dryden.
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9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
"Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" --Shak.
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10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added,
swell to a great amount.
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11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to
strut; to look big.
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Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "swollen":
SRO, accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, augmented,
aureate, beefed-up, beefy, bellied, big, big-bellied, bloated,
bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy,
brawny, brimful, brimming, broadened, bug-eyed, bulged, bulging,
burly, bursting, buxom, capacity, chock-full, choked, chubby,
chuck-full, chunky, congested, corpulent, cram-full, crammed,
crowded, deepened, dilated, distended, drenched, dropsical, dumpy,
edematous, elated, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged,
euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, extended, extravagant, farci,
fat, fattish, filled, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy,
flowery, flush, flushed, flushed with pride, formal, full,
full to bursting, fustian, gassy, glutted, goggle, goggled, gorged,
grandiloquent, gross, heavyset, hefty, heightened, high-flown,
high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, hippy, hyperemic,
hypertrophied, imposing, in spate, incrassate, increased, inflated,
intensified, jam-packed, jammed, jazzed up, lusty, magnified,
magniloquent, meaty, mouthy, multiplied, obese, outsized,
overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing,
overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded,
oversized, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight,
overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, paunchy, plenary,
plethoric, plump, podgy, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, portly,
potbellied, pouched, pretentious, proliferated, proud, pudgy,
puffed up, puffy, pursy, raised, ready to burst, reinforced,
replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, running over, satiated,
saturated, self-important, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat,
squatty, stalwart, standing room only, stiffened, stilted, stocky,
stout, strapping, strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy,
supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled,
swelling, tall, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened, top-heavy,
topful, tubby, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid,
ventose, ventricose, well-fed, widened, windy
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