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swell English

Meaning swell meaning

What does swell mean?
Definitions in simple English

swell Verb

— When something swells, it becomes larger, usually due to an increase in blood in an area of the body.

swell

— verb increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity The music swelled to a crescendo — verb become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son — verb expand abnormally The bellies of the starving children are swelling — noun the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea — noun a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) — noun a crescendo followed by a decrescendo — verb (= well up) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) Strong emotions welled up Smoke swelled from it — verb (= well) come up, as of a liquid Tears well in her eyes the currents well up — adjective (= bully, great, neat, smashing) very good he did a bully job a neat sports car had a great time at the party you look simply smashing — verb cause to become swollen The water swells the wood — noun (= dandy) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

Synonyms swell synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as swell?

swell English » English

bulge expand rise inflate swell up increase surge distend bloat billow become swollen wave grow tumefy puff up protrude swelling ripple overflow dandy blister puff dilate swollen smashing intumesce fop excellent puff out peachy blow up be swollen augment undulation undulate tumesce slap-up sheik roller neat groovy great enlarge dude bulge out beau be inflated be inflamed balloon well up

Topics swell topics

What do people use swell to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Swell
States

Big
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Person Body Internal organs

Male organs
States Quantity More

Increase
Grammar Very Degree

To a larger degree

Conjugation swell conjugation

How do you conjugate swell?

swell · verb

Examples swell examples

How do I use swell in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In addition to a thick fog, there was a heavy swell.

Movie subtitles

It's swell.
If I had known when I first saw you. that you were only a telephone operator instead of a swell. I'd have proposed to you right on the spot.
That's swell with me, even though it don't buy no limousines.
Surprised to see me in your swell joint?
Why, he can go to a swell hotel and order a suite, a suite, and it's all right.
Tony deserved a swell send-off.
That's swell of you.
It sure is swell.
Well, I guess we're all having a swell time and it sure is good to see all you gents with your molls here.
I'm gonna get that swell-headed mug if it's the last thing I ever do.
Sure I'm good enough to sit in such a swell chair?
It gives you a swell front.
Say, I interviewed a swell guy the other day.
Swell guy.
You want him to get a swell head?
What a swell home life I've got.
Very swell.
Gee, you look swell.
You'd look swell.
Swell apartment.
Swell nose.
Swell dame.
And for you a swell finish.
Did he introduce you to any of his swell friends?
And since you did give them to me, dear. Don't you think its swell, selling them all like that?
Gee, you're a swell fellow.
Say, we getting along swell, aren't we? Heh.
I've been doing swell, Mr. Amenoppopolus.
Really, he's a swell fellow.
It looks swell.
You look swell, baby.

News and current affairs

If Kosovo gains independence, these numbers will swell, as an exodus of all remaining Serbs is likely unless their territorial bastions - particularly in northern Kosovo, around Mitrovica - join with Serbia.
Military reprisals will swell their ranks still further, and, until political grievances are addressed, the spread of democracy will not change that equation, because the extremists will win at the ballot box.
If growth does not pick up, the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed will swell, increasing the size of the pool from which extremist groups find fresh recruits.
More ominously, monetization of these fiscal deficits is becoming a pattern in many advanced economies, as central banks have started to swell the monetary base via massive purchases of short- and long-term government paper.

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