SWOLLEN
conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
(adjective) 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”
SWELL
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
(verb) expand abnormally; “The bellies of the starving children are swelling”
swell
(verb) cause to become swollen; “The water swells the wood”
swell
(verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; “The music swelled to a crescendo”
well, swell
(verb) come up, as of a liquid; “Tears well in her eyes”; “the currents well up”
swell, puff up
(verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; “The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
swollen (comparative more swollen, superlative most swollen)
protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
Verb
swollen
past participle of swell
Anagrams
• Nowells, nowells
Source: Wiktionary
Swoll"en,
Definition: p. p. of Swell.
Swoll"en, a.
Definition: Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes;
swollen streams.
SWELL
Swell, v. i. [imp. Swelled; p. p. Swelled or Swollen (; p. pr. & vb.
n. Swelling.] Etym: [AS. swellan; akin to D. zwellen, OS. & OHG.
swellan, G. schwellen, Icel. svella, Sw. svälla.]
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.
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.
3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in
tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet. Sir W.
Scott.
5. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
6. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a
swelling style.
7. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
Your equal mind yet swells not into state. Dryden.
9. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. "Monarchs to
behold the swelling scene!" Shak.
10. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to
a great amount.
11. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut;
to look big.
Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. Shak.
Swell, v. t.
1. To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise,
dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers
in spring; immigration swells the population.
[The Church] swells her high, heart-cheering tone. Keble.
2. To aggravate; to heighten.
It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to
swell the charge. Atterbury.
3. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled
with pride or haughtiness.
4. (Mus.)
Definition: To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a
note.
Swell, n.
1. The act of swelling.
2. Gradual increase. Specifically:
(a) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
(b) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
Little River affords navigation during a swell to within three miles
of the Miami. Jefferson.
(c) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
Music arose with its voluptuous swell. Byron.
(d) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
The swell and subsidence of his periods. Landor.
3. A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive
plain abounding with little swells.
4. A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the
roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the
harbor.
The swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay. Tennyson.
The gigantic swells and billows of the snow. Hawthorne.
5. (Mus.)
Definition: A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the
crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the
sign.
6. A showy, dashing person; a dandy. [Slang] Ground swell. See under
Ground.
– Organ swell (Mus.), a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box,
the uncovering of which by means of a pedal produces increased sound.
– Swell shark (Zoöl.), a small shark (Scyllium ventricosum) of the
west coast of North America, which takes in air when caught, and
swells up like a swellfish.
Swell, a.
Definition: Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance;
showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell
neighborhood. [Slang] Swell mob. See under Mob. [Slang]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition