DICTOMETER

SWELLING

(swell, swelling, fenomenal, hincharse, oleaje, rompiente, hinchazón, dønning, elegant, flott, hovne opp, stor bølge, svelle, svulme, hevelse, svulmende, svulming)

1. Synonyms:
   • Swelling
   • Puffiness
   • Lump
   Definitions:
   • an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Bulge
   • Bump
   • Hump
   • Swelling
   • Gibbosity
   • Gibbousness
   • Jut
   • Prominence
   • Protuberance
   • Protrusion
   • Extrusion
   • Excrescence
   Definitions:
   • something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
   Examples:
   • The gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
   • The hump of a camel
   • He stood on the rocky prominence
   • The occipital protuberance was well developed
   • The bony excrescence between its horns
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Intumescence
   • Intumescency
   • Swelling
   Definitions:
   • the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Swell
   Definitions:
   • increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
   Examples:
   • The music swelled to a crescendo
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Swell
   • Puff up
   Definitions:
   • become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
   Examples:
   • The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Swell
   • Swell up
   • Intumesce
   • Tumefy
   • Tumesce
   Definitions:
   • expand abnormally
   Examples:
   • The bellies of the starving children are swelling
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Well up
   • Swell
   Definitions:
   • come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
   Examples:
   • Strong emotions welled up
   • Smoke swelled from it
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Well
   • Swell
   Definitions:
   • come up, as of a liquid
   Examples:
   • Tears well in her eyes
   • The currents well up
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Swell
   Definitions:
   • cause to become swollen
   Examples:
   • The water swells the wood