Swell-up Synonyms

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Synonyms for Swell-up

swell
Swell is defined as to grow larger beyond the normal size.
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intumesce
To bubble up, especially from the effect of heating.
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tumefy
To make or become swollen
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tumesce
To become or cause to become tumescent.
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  • Don't let your head swell up that way.

  • In Peronospora, Saprolegnia, &c., the ends of the branches swell up into sporangia, which develop zoospores in their interior (zoosporangia), or their contents become oospheres, which may be fertilized by the contents of other branches (antheridia) and so form egg-cases (oogonia).

  • When the free ends of the hyphae emerge again into the air they swell up into spherical bodies which may either fall off and behave as conidia, each putting out a germ-tube and infecting the host; or the germ-tube itself swells up into a zoosporangium which develops a number of zoospores.

  • Crystals of ordinary borax swell up to a very great extent on heating, losing their water of crystallization and melting to a clear white glass.

  • The cell-walls in some forms swell up into a gelatinous mass so that the cell appears to be surrounded in the unstained condition by a clear, transparent space.

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