Definitions from Wiktionary (swell)
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
▸ verb: (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
▸ verb: To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
▸ verb: To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
▸ verb: To protuberate; to bulge out.
▸ noun: The act of swelling; increase in size.
▸ noun: A bulge or protuberance.
▸ noun: Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
▸ noun: A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
▸ noun: (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
▸ noun: (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
▸ noun: (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
▸ noun: A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
▸ noun: (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
▸ noun: (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
▸ noun: (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
▸ noun: The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
▸ adjective: (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
▸ adjective: (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
▸ adverb: (Canada, US, informal) Very well.
▸ Also see swell
ground swells,
head swells,
my heart swells with warmth,
it has a floor and swells,
swells my heart,
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▸ verb: (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
▸ verb: (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
▸ verb: To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
▸ verb: To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
▸ verb: To protuberate; to bulge out.
▸ noun: The act of swelling; increase in size.
▸ noun: A bulge or protuberance.
▸ noun: Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
▸ noun: A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
▸ noun: (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
▸ noun: (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
▸ noun: (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
▸ noun: A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
▸ noun: (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
▸ noun: (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
▸ noun: (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
▸ noun: The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
▸ adjective: (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
▸ adjective: (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
▸ adverb: (Canada, US, informal) Very well.
▸ Also see swell
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