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