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Swell   /swɛl/   Listen
Swell

noun
1.
The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.  Synonym: crestless wave.
2.
A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).
3.
A crescendo followed by a decrescendo.
4.
A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.  Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik.
verb
(past swelled; past part. swollen; pres. part. swelling)
1.
Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.
2.
Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.  Synonym: puff up.
3.
Expand abnormally.  Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce.
4.
Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).  Synonym: well up.  "Smoke swelled from it"
5.
Come up, as of a liquid.  Synonym: well.  "The currents well up"
6.
Cause to become swollen.
adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"



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"Swell" Quotes from Famous Books



... wakes, and her heart is high, For the Bassarids and the Fauns are nigh, And prosperous leaves lisp busily Over flattered brakes, whence the breezes bring Vext twittering To swell ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... through the valley of the shadow of death, yet shall he fear no evil, for God is with him; his rod and his staff they comfort him.' The wicked have not this comfort. To them darkness and solitude must be too horrible. Satan—not God—is their companion. The ghosts of their past crimes rise and swell the present horror. Remorse and despair are added to the double gloom of solitude and darkness. You don't know what you are doing when you shut up a poor lost sinner of excitable temperament in that dreadful hole. It is a wild experiment on a human frame. Pray be advised, pray be warned, ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade
... around that spireless church The shades of evening fell, The customary song went up With clear and rapturous swell: ...
— Indian Legends and Other Poems • Mary Gardiner Horsford
... Artillery, (those that Forrest's men did not murder at Fort Pillow), stationed here, has sent you nearly five thousand dollars for the same fund, and the 57th United States Colored Infantry desire me, at the next pay-day, to collect one dollar per man, which will swell the amount to nearly ten thousand dollars. This is a large contribution from not quite seventeen hundred men, and it could have been made larger—many of the men donating over half their pay, and in some instances the whole of it—but it was thought ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson
... mother, the Church is cold; But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm. Besides, I can tell where I am used well; The poor parsons with wind like a blown bladder swell. ...
— Poems of William Blake • William Blake


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