Another word for swell
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Verb
To make or become greater or larger
- (idiomatic) to strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to
- Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents.
- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- To surge up.
- A rapid or abrupt rise:
- To rise or fly into the air:
- To maintain altitude without moving the wings or using an engine; glide.
- To increase or improve suddenly above the normal or usual level:
- A mass of soft, wet snow packed into a ball that can be thrown, as in play.
- Any of several plants having rounded clusters of white flowers, especially certain cultivated viburnums.
- A snow cone.
- An often sudden increase:
- The period of time that leads up an event or occurrence:
- To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
- To get out of bed:
- To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend:
- To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.
- To increase or spread at a rapid rate:
- To cause to grow or increase rapidly.
- To increase the amount, number, or degree of.
- To perform multiplication on.
- To grow in amount, number, or degree:
- To climb or ascend:
- To place oneself upon; get up on:
- To climb onto (a female) for copulation. Used of male animals.
- To increase the apparent size of (an object), especially by means of a lens, instrument, or device.
- To increase the volume of (sound):
- To make more intense or extreme:
- To become greater or larger.
- To multiply; reproduce.
- To make greater or larger.
- To increase in size by a natural process.
- To expand; gain:
- To increase in amount or degree; intensify:
- To cause (something) to be longer, wider, or cover more area:
- To enlarge the scope or effect of:
- To cause (something) to last longer:
- To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge:
- To express at length or in detail; enlarge on:
- To open (something) up or out; spread out:
- To increase in intensity, extent, or amount:
- To increase, enlarge, or intensify:
- To pass (a transaction or case) on to a higher level in an organizational hierarchy:
- To make larger in size.
- To make larger in scope or effect; expand:
- To become larger; grow or swell.
- To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
- To begin to grow or blossom.
- To grow or develop rapidly; expand or proliferate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages.
- (idiomatic) To strengthen.
- Alternative form of buildup.
- To form by combining materials or parts; construct.
- To order, finance, or supervise the construction of:
- To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create:
- To raise or lift by pushing up from below.
- To increase; raise:
- To assist in further development or progress:
- To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity:
- To add an augment to.
- To become augmented.
- To make larger or more powerful; increase.
- To add to, as by illustrations; make complete.
- To exaggerate.
- To increase the scope of; extend:
- To make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation:
- To consider to be or cause to appear greater than is really the case; exaggerate:
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Noun
The act of increasing or rising
- To turn up or over:
- To upset; overturn.
- To direct upward:
- An upward swing or trend.
- An increase, as in movement or business activity.
- To surge up.
- A rapid or abrupt rise:
- To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
- To get out of bed:
- To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend:
- To move to a higher position; elevate:
- To set in an upright or erect position:
- To erect or build:
- (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- The act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
- Propagation of plants and animals; procreation.
- The operation that, for positive integers, consists of adding a number (the multiplicand) to itself a certain number of times. The operation is extended to other numbers according to the multiplicative properties of positive integers and other algebraic properties.
- To propel oneself upward or over a distance in single quick motion or series of such motions.
- To move suddenly and in one motion:
- To move involuntarily, as in surprise:
- To become greater or larger.
- To multiply; reproduce.
- To make greater or larger.
- To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
- To rise, especially to rise upward out of place:
- To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly:
- The process of growing.
- Full development; maturity.
- Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
- an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy
- a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict
- An act of enlarging or the state of being enlarged.
- Something that enlarges; an addition.
- Something that has been enlarged, especially a photographic reproduction or a copy larger than the original print or negative.
- The act or process of amassing or increasing:
- The result of building up:
- Widely favorable publicity, especially by a systematic campaign:
- To raise or lift by pushing up from below.
- To increase; raise:
- To assist in further development or progress:
- The act or process of augmenting.
- The condition of being augmented.
- Something that augments.
- To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity:
- To add an augment to.
- To become augmented.
- The act or result of amplifying, enlarging, or extending.
- An addition to or expansion of a statement or idea.
- A statement with such an addition.
- The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
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Adjective
Exceptionally good of its kind
See also:Particularly excellent
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Another word for swell
Modifier
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- Of superior quality, skill, or appearance:
- Excellent in character or ability:
- Very small in size, weight, or thickness:
- Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing:
- Worth doing or achieving; advisable:
- Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.
- Foremost in quality, rank, or importance.
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Verb
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- To swell or cause to swell.
- : To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (intransitive): To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
- Well-rounded and full in form; chubby.
- Abundant; ample:
- To make well-rounded or full in form:
- A local swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation.
- A similar swelling on a plant.
- A raised bubble, as on a painted or laminated surface.
- To fill (something) with air or gas so as to make it swell:
- To fill with pride; aggrandize:
- To represent as greater or more important than is in fact the case:
- A short forceful exhalation of breath.
- A short sudden gust of wind.
- A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.
- A flexible bag designed to be inflated with hot air or with a gas, such as helium, that is lighter than the surrounding air, causing it to rise and float in the atmosphere.
- Such a bag with sufficient capacity to lift and transport a suspended gondola or other load.
- Such a bag shaped like a figure or object when inflated; an inflatable.
- A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
- A bilge.
- A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity:
- To increase in size by a natural process.
- To expand; gain:
- To increase in amount or degree; intensify:
- To make larger in size.
- To make larger in scope or effect; expand:
- To become larger; grow or swell.
- To become greater or larger.
- To multiply; reproduce.
- To make greater or larger.
- To swell out or expand, especially from internal pressure:
- To cause to expand, especially from internal pressure; dilate:
- To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge:
- To express at length or in detail; enlarge on:
- To open (something) up or out; spread out:
- To make wider or larger; cause to expand.
- To become wider or larger; expand.
- To speak or write at great length on a subject; expatiate.
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