swell

swell is a 5-letter English word with 37 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 37 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
2. intransitive verb. To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.
3. intransitive verb. To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
4. intransitive verb. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
5. intransitive verb. To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
6. intransitive verb. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.
7. intransitive verb. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.
8. intransitive verb. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
9. intransitive verb. To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
10. intransitive verb. To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount.
11. intransitive verb. To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big.
12. transitive verb. To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population.
13. transitive verb. To aggravate; to heighten.
14. transitive verb. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.
15. transitive verb. To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note.
16. noun. The act of swelling.
17. noun. Gradual increase.
18. noun. Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.
19. noun. Increase in height; elevation; rise.
20. noun. Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound.
21. noun. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
22. noun. A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.
23. noun. A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor.
24. noun. A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign.
25. noun. A showy, dashing person; a dandy.
26. adjective. Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood.
27. noun. a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
28. noun. the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
29. noun. a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
30. noun. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

    Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik

31. verb. expand abnormally

    "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

    Synonyms: intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

32. verb. cause to become swollen

    "The water swells the wood"

33. verb. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity

    "The music swelled to a crescendo"

34. verb. come up, as of a liquid

    "Tears well in her eyes"

    "the currents well up"

    Synonyms: well

35. verb. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger

    "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

36. verb. come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

    "Strong emotions welled up"

    "Smoke swelled from it"

37. adjective. very good

    "he did a bully job"

    "a neat sports car"

    Synonyms: bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, peachy, smashing

Synonyms

beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, well, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, peachy, smashing

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swell:

wells

Common word forms

swells, swelled, sweller, swellest, swelling, swellness

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