What is the meaning of swollen?

verb

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

adjective

  • Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
    • usage: "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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). swollen. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/swollen/definitions/1184920
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MLAWordNet. "swollen" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/swollen/definitions/1184920>
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