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What (who) is Swell - definition
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Swells; Swell (disambiguation); Swell (album)
swell
¦ verb (swells, swelling, swelled; past participle swollen or swelled)
1. become larger or rounder in size, especially as a result of an accumulation of fluid.
2. become or make greater in intensity, amount, or volume.
¦ noun
1. a full or gently rounded form.
2. a gradual increase in sound, amount, or intensity.
a welling up of a feeling.
3. a slow, regular movement of the sea in rolling waves that do not break.
4. a mechanism for producing a crescendo or diminuendo in an organ or harmonium.
5. informal, dated a fashionable or stylish person of wealth or high social position.
¦ adjective N. Amer. informal, dated
1. excellent; very good.
2. archaic smart; fashionable.
¦ adverb N. Amer. informal, dated excellently; very well.
Phrases
one's head swells one becomes conceited.
Origin
OE swellan, of Gmc origin.
swell
I. v. n.
1.
Dilate, expand, tumefy, distend, fill out, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion).
2.
Increase (by outward addition), augment, enlarge.
3.
Rise (as waves), heave, surge.
4.
Belly, be inflated.
5.
Strut, look big, put on airs, be puffed up, swagger, ride a high horse, carry with a high hand.
6.
Be turgid or bombastic.
7.
Bulge, protuberate, swell out.
8.
Be puffed, be bloated, become irate.
9.
Glow, expand, warm, thrill, heave, throb, grow big.
10.
Be elated, rise into arrogance.
11.
Become larger, grow upon the view.
II. v. a.
1.
Dilate, expand, inflate, enlarge.
2.
Enhance, heighten, aggravate.
3.
Puff up, make arrogant.
III. n.
1.
Swelling.
2.
Augmentation, protuberance.
3.
Elevation, rise.
4.
Force, intensity, power, crescendo.
5.
Increase of power, increase of rhetorical force.
6.
Ascent, elevation.
7.
Waves, billows.
8.
(Colloq.) Fox, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, blade, buck, fine gentleman, spark, jack-a-dandy, dandiprat, man milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.
swell
I
n.
growing wave
a ground swell (a ground swell of support was building up)
II
v. (d; intr.) to swell with (to swell with pride)
Examples of use of Swell
1. That would have made Gaza‘s unemployment rolls swell.
2. Mr Breton claimed inflation would automatically swell state coffers.
3. It makes my girlish, swotty heart swell with pride.
4. Swell offers that very product: a carbonated white tea.
5. Economies swell "Economic growth is definitely a factor.