DICTOMETER

SWOLLEN

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
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Conceited
   • Egotistic
   • Egotistical
   • Self-conceited
   • Swollen
   • Swollen-headed
   • Vain
   Definitions:
   • characteristic of false pride
   • having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
   Examples:
   • A conceited fool
   • An attitude of self-conceited arrogance
   • An egotistical disregard of others
   • So swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
   • Growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
   • Vain about her clothes
   Antonyms:
   • Humble