Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended.
- adjective Overblown; bombastic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelled; marked by swelling, in any sense, or by a swelling: as, a swollen river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
swell . - adjective Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
swell
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
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Examples
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On examining the right hypochondrium, which he described as swollen, there was evident indication of an enlarged liver, and he complained much of shooting pain in that region during a paroxysm of cough.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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"Look at how my mouth sticks out," he said of what he described as his swollen face.
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"Look at how my mouth sticks out," he said of what he described as his swollen face.
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His face was iced up and swollen from the protracted effort of twenty-four hours, while his hands were so swollen that he could not close the fingers.
Trust 2010
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We had 2.5 weeks of newborn pics from before and … if the worst happened … we didn't want to remember him swollen from the steroids, with IVs in his skull, a central line in his leg, him in a medically induced coma with a machine breathing for him … Egads.
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There are pictures of me as a child with my eye all swollen from a bug bite.
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Instead of hair, her pale head was covered in swollen, reddish-purple growths the size of marbles, which sprouted from her hairline all the way down to the back of her neck.
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He was home last night, still a little druggy and his mouth is very swollen from the surgery and packing.
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The guts of the men sag hugely and the monstrous buttocks of the women seesaw painfully as they tread the boardwalk in swollen sneakers.
No Way 2006
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The guts of the men sag hugely and the monstrous buttocks of the women seesaw painfully as they tread the boardwalk in swollen sneakers.
No Way 2006
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