Definitions for swelling

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swelling swell·ing

Spelling: [swel-ing]

IPA: /ˈswɛl ɪŋ/

Swelling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in swelling (egillnsw).

Definitions for swelling

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that swells.
2. the condition of being or becoming swollen.
3. a swollen part; a protuberance or prominence.
4. Pathology. an abnormal enlargement or protuberance, as that resulting from edema.
5. the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
6. inflation or distention.
7. a protuberant part.
8. a wave, especially when long and unbroken, or a series of such waves.
9. a gradually rising elevation of the land.
10. an increase in amount, degree, force, etc.
11. a gradual increase in loudness of sound.
12. Music. a gradual increase (crescendo) followed by a gradual decrease (diminuendo) in loudness or force of musical sound. the sign () for indicating this. a device, as in an organ, by which the loudness of tones may be varied.
13. a swelling of emotion within one.
14. Slang. a fashionably dressed person; dandy. a socially prominent person.

adjective

1. (of things) stylish; elegant:
2. (of persons) fashionably dressed or socially prominent.
3. first-rate; fine:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to grow in bulk.
2. to cause to increase gradually in loudness:
3. to cause (a thing) to bulge out or be protuberant.
4. to increase in amount, degree, force, etc.
5. to affect with a strong, expansive emotion.
6. to puff up with pride.

verb (used without object)

1. to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
2. Pathology. to increase abnormally in size, as by inflation, distention, accumulation of fluids, or the like:
3. to rise in waves, as the sea.
4. to well up, as a spring or as tears.
5. to bulge out, as a sail or the middle of a cask.
6. to grow in amount, degree, force, etc.
7. to increase gradually in volume or intensity, as sound:
8. to arise and grow within one, as a feeling or emotion.
9. to become puffed up with pride.

Origin of swelling

before 900; Middle English, Old English; see swell, -ing¹

Examples for swelling

The emotion of the moment was swelling over Roma like a flood.

swelling, pus, the whole shebang; an angry reaction that lasted weeks.

She helped him to keep his feet on the ground and his head from swelling.

“I was hospitalized for two or three days waiting for the swelling to disappear,” he recalled.

She was crying so much that an assistant was tasked with giving her ice packs to reduce the swelling.

Charles's house on the left; on the right the swelling forms of the Six Hills.

But then, once this swelling tide has receded, what happens?

Not hard to imagine what drives this number – money, the ever swelling lubricant of elective office.

And he added, swelling visibly with importance: "We got to protect the city."

His limbs pained although they were swelling to enormous size.