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Adjective swollen has 4 senses
- bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
- distended, swollen - abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"
Antonym: contracted (indirect, via expanded)
- conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain - characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
- flooding, in flood, overflowing, swollen - overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
Antonym: low (indirect, via high)
Verb swell has 6 senses
- swell - increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
--1 is one way to increase
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Something is ----ing PP
- swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
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- swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
--3 is one way to expand
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Did his feet swell?
- well up, swell - as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
--4 is one way to originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
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Something is ----ing PP
- well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
--5 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
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- swell - cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
--6 is one way to grow
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