Usually means: Ocean waves that grow larger.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. swells: Merriam-Webster
  2. swells: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swells: Collins English Dictionary
  4. swells: Vocabulary.com
  5. Swells, swells: Wordnik
  6. swells: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. swells: Wiktionary
  8. swells: Dictionary.com
  9. swells: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. swells: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swells: Legal dictionary

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  1. swells: Encyclopedia

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  1. swells: Idioms

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  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See swell as well.)

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.
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