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Meanings of swollen in English
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
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Examples for "puffed"
Examples for "puffed"
1
Lysandra puffed out her cheeks and asked the slave to bring water.
2
At my question, Yamazaki puffed out his chest and started to reply.
3
The general puffed out his cheeks, and coughed a bit in embarrassment.
4
I did note, however, her lower lip puffed out in a pout.
5
He tamped down the tobacco in his pipe and puffed it meditatively.
1
Questions regarding the sustainability of a bloated public service workforce still remain.
2
Year after year, jaded and bloated blockbusters facepalm at the box office.
3
Progress to implement reforms and overhaul a bloated state sector is mixed.
4
Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
5
Was the body bloated and discolored from its time in the sea?
1
He gazed about the familiar confines of the room in puffy-eyed stupidity.
2
Above the line of the beard the skin was mottled and puffy.
3
Long white streaks marked the puffy red of the swollen, dropsical flesh.
4
They regard him through puffy eyes and continue to shovel in pizza.
5
Rann laughed and lowered one puffy eyelid in a blandly unembarrassed wink.
1
His nostrils distended at the memory and again he searched the lowlands.
2
The scars of the stigmas shone like silver beneath her distended skin.
3
The most ordinary incidents distended, inflated themselves in a really unaccountable manner.
4
Her eyes flattened, distended, and sparked like micaceous rock in the dark.
5
The distended udders of thousands of camels were an assurance of plenty.
1
There is nothing turgid in his dignity, nor superfluous in his copiousness.
2
But into the turgid down-sweep he headed with a newly conjured vigor.
3
Their turgid rhetoric and exaggerated pretence did not seem natural to him.
4
There was no sign of the puppy on the turgid grey surface.
5
The sea is dark and death-like, the air clammy, turgid, and steamy.
1
They, indeed, ridiculed his action as theatrical, and his style as tumid.
2
But confound this tumid, queasy feeling-thisrestlessness, swelling, and heat-itwas jealousy!
3
I do not: I find them turgid and tumid no end.
4
Thomson grows tumid wherever he assays the grandiosity of his model.
5
More tumid rain-clouds were approaching fast from the east, borne by the obdurate breeze.
1
This study evaluates patient outcomes following tumescent mastectomy and immediate implant reconstruction.
2
His face was blurred, unrecognizable, at the same time shrunken and tumescent.
3
However, there is concern that tumescent solution may also affect postoperative complication rates.
4
He, too, was feeling the heat rise inside himself and his tumescent manhood.
5
The tumescent apex split open, dribbling a thick gelatinous goo onto the corridor floor.
1
Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the lamellae were clearly intumescent and intricately stacked in ygl8.
Usage of swollen in English
1
Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
2
The sea was swollen and billowy; it made the Nautilus rock violently.
3
Hundreds of bodies remain buried in mud or floating in swollen rivers.
4
Avoid crossing rivers and swollen streams where water is above your ankles.
5
The body is club-shape and moves with the swollen end in advance.
6
His knees were swollen and he simply couldn't pass the run times.
7
It came free of the swollen jamb with a brief grinding noise.
8
This causes the tissue to become swollen or inflamed, the website said.
9
My limbs felt heavy and swollen, and my energy did not return.
10
Mrs. Hughs held out her arms; the wrists were swollen and discoloured.
11
One, in particular, had an eye so swollen that it was closed.
12
Loud sounded the measured axe-strokes over the rush of the swollen river.
13
His left eve was purpled but not quite so swollen as before.
14
The nervous suggestion of form, pulsing and swollen and ready to burst.
15
Scallop shells jostle for position with swollen cherubs, no surface left unadorned.
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The river was swollen with rains and no boats were in sight.
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