Definitions for swollen

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swollen swol·len

Spelling: [swoh-luh n]

IPA: /ˈswoʊ lən/

Swollen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in swollen (ellnosw).

Definitions for swollen

noun

1. the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
2. inflation or distention.
3. a protuberant part.
4. a wave, especially when long and unbroken, or a series of such waves.
5. a gradually rising elevation of the land.
6. an increase in amount, degree, force, etc.
7. a gradual increase in loudness of sound.
8. 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.
9. a swelling of emotion within one.
10. Slang. a fashionably dressed person; dandy. a socially prominent person.

verb

1. a past participle of swell.

adjective

1. enlarged by or as by swelling; puffed up; tumid.
2. turgid or bombastic.
3. (of things) stylish; elegant:
4. (of persons) fashionably dressed or socially prominent.
5. 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 swollen

before 900; Middle English swellen (v.), Old English swellan; cognate with Dutch zwellen, German schwellen, Old Norse svella; akin to Gothic ufswalleins pride

Examples for swollen

Lifting his swollen hands and visibly cut-up wrists as proof, he leads me through a trail of wounds.

“The art of biography has produced all these swollen books,” McMurtry told me.

He was trying to speak, but his swollen lips could scarcely make a sound.

So the discs get all floppy, swollen, pop out left, pop out right.

His eyelids were swollen by the great tears which at last rolled down his cheeks.

The late storms had swollen the waters in the neighbourhood.

In short, the swollen river had already done a great deal of mischief.

After it has swollen as much as it will, the plaster mould is made as before.

According to Robertson—not a registered dietician—low carb diets “build up clinkers” and “you get swollen joints, you get gout.”

But the attitude of doctors was that if the lymph glands were swollen it was a good sign of a body fighting infection.