Swollen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. A past participle of swell.
  • adj. Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended: a swollen toe.
  • adj. Overblown; bombastic: swollen rhetoric.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Past participle of swell
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • p. p. of swell.
  • adj. Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Swelled; marked by swelling, in any sense, or by a swelling: as, a swollen river.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  • Equivalent
    proud   
    Cross Reference
    protuberant    swelling    inflated    elated    bombastic   
    Variant
    swell   
    Verb Stem
    swell   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dolan    Nolan    Solon    colon    golan    polan    solan    solon    stolen