swell

swell - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: swĕl, IPA: /swɛl/

Verb

swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or swole or swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)

  1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
    • Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
  3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
    • The organ music swelled.
  4. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
  5. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
    • to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
  6. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
  7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
    • swelling words  a swelling style
  9. To protuberate; to bulge out.
    • A cask swells in the middle.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: надувам се (naduvam se), важнича (bg) (važniča)
  • Finnish: ylpistyttää
  • German: aufplustern (de) (reflexive)
  • Finnish: pullistua (fi)
  • German: anschwellen (de) (process), aufwölben, ausbauchen
  • Hungarian: kidudorodik (hu), kidomborodik (hu), kidülled

Noun

swell (countable and uncountable, plural swells)

  1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
  2. A bulge or protuberance.
  3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  5. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  6. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  7. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  9. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
  10. (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
  11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

Synonyms

  • (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner): dandy, dude, toff
  • (person of high social standing): toff

Derived terms

Translations

  • Bulgarian: изпъкналост (bg) f (izpǎknalost)
  • Finnish: patti (fi) (bulge); uloke (fi) (protuberance)
  • German: Beule (de) f
  • Bulgarian: мъртво вълнение n (mǎrtvo vǎlnenie)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 涌浪 (zh) (yǒnglàng)
  • Danish: dønning
  • Dutch: deining (nl) f
  • Finnish: maininki (fi)
  • French: houle (fr) f
  • Galician: vaga (gl) f, mar de fondo m
  • German: Dünung (de) f, Seegang (de) m, Wellengang (de) m, Wogen (de) f pl (swells)
  • Greek: ρεστία (el) f (restía), αποθαλασσία f (apothalassía)
  • Hebrew: גִּבּוּעַ (he) m (gibu'a)
  • Hungarian: hullámzás (hu), hullámverés (hu)
  • Irish: mórtas m
  • Italian: rigonfiamento (it) m, mare di fondo, flutti (it), onda lunga, mareggiare
  • Japanese: うねり (ja) (uneri)
  • Latin: tumor m
  • Latvian: bangas
  • Maori: āmai, amotai, huaroa, huene, tai whakarākau (a very long swell), tārawa
  • Nahuatl: timalla, timalloa
  • Norwegian:
  • Occitan: estòbi m, marejada f, mar de fons f
  • Ottoman Turkish: صالندی (salındı)
  • Polish: falowanie (pl)
  • Portuguese: swell (pt) m
  • Romanian: val (ro), valuri
  • Russian: зыбь (ru) f (zybʹ)
  • Sanskrit: क्षोदस् (sa) n (kṣodas)
  • Spanish: mar de fondo m
  • Swahili: kivimbe (sw)
  • Swedish: dyning (sv), svall (sv) n
  • Japanese: 起伏 (ja) (kifuku)
  • Swahili: kivimbe (sw)
  • Swahili: kivimbe (sw)
  • Swahili: kivimbe (sw)
  • Finnish: herra (fi)
  • German: Großkopferter (de) m (Austro-Bavarian), feiner Pinkel m

Adjective

swell (not generally comparable, comparative sweller, superlative swellest)

  1. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
  2. (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.

Translations

Adverb

swell (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.

Translations


Anagrams

swell - Middle English

Verb

swell

  1. Alternative form of swellen

Adverb

swell

  1. Alternative form of swelle

swell - Portuguese

Noun

swell m (plural swells)

  1. (surfing) swell (series of waves)
Meaning and Definition of swell
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