Word Finder - swells

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To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

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To cause to become bigger.

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Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

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To grow gradually in force or loudness.

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The organ music swelled.

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To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

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to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

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To be raised to arrogance.

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To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

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To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

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swelling words  a swelling style

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To protuberate; to bulge out.

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A cask swells in the middle.

The boat is constructed to an Australian design, with a solid hull, designed to ride out big southern ocean swells.

What swells they are!

The ocean of water buoys or floats the ship, and the ocean of air, or part of it in motion, swells the sails which propel the ship. The moving air, which strikes the sails directly, strikes.

The nave is thus covered completely by a domical canopy, which, in its ascent, swells larger and larger, mounts higher and higher, as though a miniature heaven rose overhead.

With water it swells by absorption, and with even fifty times its weight of that liquid forms a thick mucilage.

The swells were not caused by a cyclone or and were not part of a tsunami, the French meteorological service reported Tuesday.

At some point my flying hand hits cymbal bruising wrist which soon swells.

Our peninsula picks up Atlantic swells through a " surf window " between the SW of the UK and Ireland.

It is also popular with swimmers, surfers and body boarders due to the protective westerly swells.

Glaciation has strongly scoured away the deeply-weathered soils that presumably existed here in preglacial time, revealing firm and rugged ledges in the low hills and swells of the ground, and spreading an irregular drift cover over the lower parts, whereby the drainage is often much disordered; here being detained in lakes and swamps (muskegs) and there rushing down rocky rapids.

Nor is it so scandalous that revenue from motoring fines swells police and Treasury coffers.

My chest swells with pride at being found to be too ' far out ' for these people.

Most cruises combine dinner or drinks with stunning views of a Hawaiian sunset, all while floating on the gentle swells of the Pacific Ocean.

Other effects of OHS include visual blurring when the optical disk swells and strain on the heart as it tries to pump fluids through.

This inflammation swells the passageways, partially closing them down, further hampering the movement of mucus.

Compartment syndrome-A condition in which the blood supply to a muscle is cut off because the muscle swells but is constricted by the connective tissue around it.

Take discoloration or painful spots seriously, and consult a doctor if your skin swells or bleeds.

If skin becomes red or swells, they should stop using the produce immediately and contact a doctor.

A fisher­man had thought he'd sighted a body in the bay, but it was too far away to confirm and, with night approaching, the shape was lost in the darkening swells.

He studied her, his eyes lingering on her lips and the swells of her breasts before he met her gaze again.

He believes that the capsule contains a substance which swells very rapidly when brought into contact with water, and that in the undischarged condition the capsule has its.

In the process ef cell-fusion the cell-wall swells slightly and then begins to dissolve gradually at some one point.

Immersed in cold water gelatin does not dissolve but swells up; it dissolves readily in hot water, forming, according to the quantity present, a thick jelly which solidifies to a hard mass on cooling (the " glue " of the woodworker), or a thin jelly (used in cookery).

During the rains, however, it swells to a mighty stream, a mile or more in breadth.

Local burning pain; the bitten limb soon swells and is discoloured.

The importance of the osmotic pressure of sea-water in biology will be easily understood from the fact that a frog placed in sea-water loses water by exosmosis and soon becomes 20% lighter than its original weight, while a true salt-water fish suddenly transferred to fresh water gains water by endosmosis, swells up and quickly succumbs.

Between the rising swells of long-leaf pine lands are impenetrable thickets of hawthorn, holly, privet, plane trees and magnolias.

If the harmonic corresponding to the resonator is present its tone swells out loudly.

The sound swells out and dies down n1 - n2 times per second, or there are n1 - n2 beats per second.

Beyond that it swells out into the vast massif of Anambaruin-ula, which is traversed by at least three minor parallel chains.

In the east the range is mostly narrow, and dies away on the edge of the Tsaidam depression; but in the west it swells out into the lofty and imposing mass of the Ilve-chimen or Shia-manglay, which is capped with perpetual snow.

The till plains, although sweeping in broad swells of slowly changing altitude, are often level to the eye, and the view across them stretches to the horizon, unless interrupted by groves of trees along the watercourses, or by belts of low morainic hills.

Cetraria islandica, the wall contains Lichenin (C6H1005), a gummy substance which swells in cold water and dissolves in hot.

When the free ends of the hyphae emerge again into the air they swell up into spherical bodies which may either fall off and behave as conidia, each putting out a germ-tube and infecting the host; or the germ-tube itself swells up into a zoosporangium which develops a number of zoospores.

That portion of the ground which is to be watered by one conductor should be made into beds to suit the circumstances of that conductor; that is, instead of the beds over the meadow being all reduced to one common level, they should be formed to suit the different swells in the ground, and, should any of these swells be considerable, it will be necessary to give each side of them its respective conductor.

She pulled up a chair, her movement giving him a peek of the swells of her breasts as she bent.