swell

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

The brightest heaven of invention,

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act

And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

The organ music swelled.

It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.

In all things else above our humble fate

Your equal mind yet swells not into state,

But like some mountain in those happy Isles

Where in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles,

Your greatnesse shows:

swelling words  a swelling style

A cask swells in the middle.