What is the meaning of swelled?

verb

• Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.
  • usage: "The music swelled to a crescendo"
  • synonyms: swell
• Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.
  • usage: "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
  • synonyms: swell, puff up
• Expand abnormally.
  • usage: "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
  • synonyms: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things. )
  • usage: "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
  • synonyms: well up, swell
• Come up, as of a liquid.
  • usage: "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
  • synonyms: well, swell
• Cause to become swollen.
  • usage: "The water swells the wood"
  • synonyms: swell

adjective

• Feeling self-importance.
  • usage: "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
  • synonyms: big, vainglorious