English Dictionary

swell

/swɛl/

verb

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. / (transitive) To cause to become bigger. / (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.

The waves in the ocean swell during a storm.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

The brightest heaven of invention,

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act

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!

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause to become bigger.

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.

The organ music swelled.

意味（4）

(transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.

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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

意味（6）

(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.

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

意味（7）

To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

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,

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:

意味（8）

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

swelling words a swelling style

意味（9）

To protuberate; to bulge out.

A cask swells in the middle.