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English to English adjective
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Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. | source: webster1913 adjective satellite Example:
• he did a bully job
• a neat sports car
• had a great time at the party
• you look simply smashing
source: wordnet30 noun
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the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | source: wordnet30
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a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | source: wordnet30
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a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | source: wordnet30
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a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | source: wordnet30 source: webster1913 verb
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increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity |
• The music swelled to a crescendo
source: wordnet30
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become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger |
• The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
source: wordnet30 Example:
• The bellies of the starving children are swelling
source: wordnet30
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come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) |
• Strong emotions welled up
• Smoke swelled from it
source: wordnet30
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come up, as of a liquid |
• Tears well in her eyes
• the currents well up
source: wordnet30
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cause to become swollen |
• The water swells the wood
source: wordnet30
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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. | source: webster1913
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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. | source: webster1913
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