Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling self-importance
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Examples
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Since Costolo's arrival, Twitter has moved into larger offices in San Francisco to accommodate a payroll that has swelled from a few dozen people to about 300 employees.
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Replaces Evan Williams As CEO AP 2010
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Nor did she notice the tiny drop of blood that swelled from the tiny hole it left in her flesh.
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(The total margin swelled to 2,320 because they often didn't bat in the bottom of the ninth.)
USATODAY.com 2002
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Sometimes her feet swelled from the walk to her seat, but she didn't have time to care.
USATODAY.com - Cancer can't keep Schmidt's mom from Series 2002
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Her name swelled from his hoarse shout against her neck as he buried his face in her shoulder.
Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003
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Torrents of rain swelled the streams, all of which flow from the summit of the mountain.
Indiana 1900
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She would not go back to him this morning however, - the rushing sound being gone, and the deafness remaining being owing she thinks to the ear being swelled from the rough treatment it got.
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The tide of joy ran too strong, and too much swelled from the open sources of love and memory, to keep any bounds.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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Love and ambition again swelled his breast; and with recovered spirits, and a glow on his countenance, which reawakened hope had planted there, he accompanied De Warenne to the palace.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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A 15-7 third term swelled their advantage to 14 goals at the last change, before the Fever outscored them 11-9 in the last period.
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