Word Finder - swollen

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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.

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Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

Her feet felt swollen and fiery.

He touched his swollen lip.

Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.

The large man gasped for air, his eye swollen already.

Mrs. Marsh's face was white, and her eyes red and swollen, with dark circles under them.

She must look a sight with red swollen eyes.

Yully touched her swollen eye and cheek self-consciously.

Her eyes were bloodshot and her face swollen from crying.

Her eyes were swollen and red.

Despite their pale swollen faces and tattered uniforms, the hussars formed line for roll call, kept things in order, groomed their horses, polished their arms, brought in straw from the thatched roofs in place of fodder, and sat down to dine round the caldrons from which they rose up hungry, joking about their nasty food and their hunger.

But if he saw her swollen eyes he'd be asking all kinds of questions.

The crocuses were in full bloom and the daffodils along the fence were swollen, ready to give birth to their bright yellow blossoms.

Then she pushed away from Dean and looked straight at him with red and swollen eyes.

Exaggerated importance must not be attributed to the swollen deficit.

She touched her swollen lips and winced.

A slow waltz began playing and she closed her eyes, imagining the bright sunlight and flowers bursting from swollen buds.

If the gall-bladder was swollen, it pointed to an extension or enlargement of some kind.

Why weren't his lips swollen and cracking?

Her eyes must be swollen and red.

Her eyes were swollen and red, and there were dark circles under them.

In this worm the ventral blood-vessel is so swollen as to occupy nearly the whole of the available coelom.

The few teeth are recurved, with swollen bases.

His face had the same swollen pallor as the faces of the other hospital patients, but it was not this that struck Rostov.

She described people with great sheets of skin hanging off of their bodies; grotesque swollen faces; torsos covered with large blisters.

The first symptoms of cold sores in infants are swollen gums and sore mouth.

Her throat was dry and her lips swollen.

One cheekbone was yellow, her lower lip swollen.

The lids felt like they were four inches thick and her tongue felt swollen.

Alexander reached the Hydaspes just as the rains broke, when the river was already swollen.

The larvae are furnished with large heads, powerful mandibles and well-developed legs, but the body-segments are feebly chitinized, and the tail-end is swollen.

The larvae have the three pairs of legs well developed, and the hinder abdominal segments swollen.

By 1796 the issues had reached the enormous figure of 45,500,000,000 francs, and even this gigantic total was swollen still more by the numerous counterfeits introduced into France from the neighbouring countries.

The weather during the whole of October had been unusually wet, the swollen Danube overflowed the low ground and the roads had become quagmires.

In June the waters of the Mekong, swollen by the rains and the melting of the Tibetan snows, rise to a height of 40 to 45 ft.

The third genus Rhabdogaster has no such distinct head, though the body may be swollen anteriorly.

Thus augmented, and swollen into a stream 140 yds.

Swollen by the melting of the winter snows and by heavy rains in the mountains, it is frequently a torrent, and is thus, except in the last few miles, unnavigable for either boats or rafts.

These cells become swollen by this translucent substance and are thrown off into the space where they become fused together, forming colloid masses.

The swollen waxy capillaries are pressing on the columns of liver cells and are causing marked atrophy.

The secreting cells never show this change, although they may become atrophied or destroyed by the pressure and the disturbance of nutrition brought about by the swollen condition of the capillary walls.

Upon the roots of leguminous plants characteristic swollen nodules or tubercles are present.

In this situation it becomes much swollen and banded with colours, and produces a large number of ecaudate cercariae.

The act of feeding, in which the proboscis is buried in the skin of the victim nearly up to the bulb, is remarkably quick, and in thirty seconds or less the abdomen of the fly, previously flat, becomes swollen out with blood like a berry.

The painful wound is speedily discoloured and swollen.

In the female, each ovary consists of a large number of ovarian tubes, in which swollen chambers containing the egg-cells alternate with smaller chambers enclosing nutrient material.

Otkar continues to answer " Not yet," adding at last " When thou shalt see the fields bristling with an iron harvest, and the Po and the Ticino swollen with sea-floods, inundating the walls of the city with iron billows, then shall Karl be nigh at hand."

In post-mortem examination, the most obvious pathological lesion is hypertrophy of the spleen, which may be very pronounced; the lymphatic glands in the neck, inguinal region, &c., are also often greatly swollen.

The courses of the other streams are short, and except when swollen by rains their volume is small.

The .- trunk contains a spacious body-cavity filled during the breeding season by the swollen ovaries, and the same is true of the tail if we substitute testes for ovaries.

The early larval stage of the " Lobster Moth " (Stauropus fagi), for example, presents a general resemblance, due to a combination of shape, colour, attitude and movements, to black ants, the swollen head and the caudal disk with its two tentacles representing respectively the abdomen and antenna-bearing head of the model.