swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
(verb) expand abnormally; “The bellies of the starving children are swelling”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tumesce (third-person singular simple present tumesces, present participle tumescing, simple past and past participle tumesced)
(intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.
Source: Wiktionary
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
