swell
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
To cause to become bigger.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To be raised to arrogance.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
A bulge or protuberance.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
(music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
(geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
(dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
(Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
(Canada, US, informal) Very well.
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