Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically.
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Examples for "swell "
Examples for "swell "
1 Real swell customer, great credit history, just a screwup down in records.
2 Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
3 The ship was still rolling heavily in the swell after the gale.
4 What surprised me, however, was the huge swell of support for Kick-Ass.
5 Squire must be thinking of that right now in this deeper swell .
1 It is enervating, and makes one eye swell up and turn blue.
2 Bumper thought so, too, and he began to swell up with pride.
3 Rather, it was trying to swell up but Papa wouldn't let it.
4 She wonders if her belly will swell up like the older females.
5 His hands and feet swell up and turn as black as pudding.
1 Occasionally, the joints assume a tumefied appearance, generally ulcerating, and causing painful wounds.
2 It had developed with savage speed, tumefying out of nowhere.
3 The thin, bony, and slightly tumefied head, wore a grimace.
4 Whence it comes that they are gorged and tumefied .
5 His eyes were injected with blood, his lips tumefied .
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