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Swelling Meaning in German |
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English
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German
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Wogen
, Woge
, Seegang
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Schwellung
, Anschwellung
, Verdickung
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Swelling
- (n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
- (n.) A protuberance; a prominence
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
- (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Synonyms:
Intumescence, Lump, Puffiness,
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• Swell
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
- (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
- (v. i.) To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
- (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
- (n.) A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
- (n.) A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
- (n.) Increase in height; elevation; rise.
- (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
- (v. i.) To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
- (v. i.) To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
- (n.) The act of swelling.
- (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
- (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
- (v. i.) To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (v. t.) To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
- (n.) A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
- (n.) A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
- (n.) Gradual increase.
- (n.) Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
- (v. t.) To aggravate; to heighten.
- (a.) Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. i.) To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
- (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
Synonyms:
Beau, Bully, Clotheshorse, Corking, Cracking, Dandy, Dude, Fop, Gallant, Great, Intumesce, Keen, Neat, Peachy, Sheik, Smashing, Tumefy, Well,
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station, reconsider, librarianship, subvert, family, subversion, recline, stationary, stating, stated, sovereignty, powdery, starved, sovereign, souvenir, southern, sorting, sorrow, fungus, reclaimed, accountancy, slashed, slapstick, slang, sorely, slash, recipient, slap, slanted, slant, slag, settle in, |
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Sparkle, Thank, Feel, You, Love, Kiss, Weaken, Be, Glitter, I, Blend, Do, Go, Dark, Abash, Slash, Boy, Shorten, Endure, Bride, Trend, Girl, Abbreviate, Dedicate, Romance, Gash, Father, Sparkling, Feeling, Run, Thanks, Bitter, |
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