Swelling Synonyms and Antonyms

swĕlĭng
Come up, as of a liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. increasing
  2. growing
  3. rising
  4. expanding
  5. inflating
  6. puffing
  7. enlarging
  8. ballooning
  9. bulging
  10. extending
  11. waxing
  12. welling
  13. accumulating
  14. upsurging
  15. waving
  16. plumping
  17. soaring
  18. swaggering
  19. surging
  20. blistering
  21. strutting
  22. distending
  23. multiplying
  24. mounting
  25. protruding
  26. magnifying
  27. keening
  28. intensifying
  29. amplifying
  30. huffing
  31. dilating
  32. heaving
  33. escalating
  34. fining
  35. building
  36. boosting
  37. aggrandizing
Antonyms:
  1. shrinking
  2. concentrating
  3. decreasing
  4. contracting
  5. compressing
  6. declining
The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. intumescence
  2. intumescency

Words Related to Swelling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. injury
  2. convex
  3. sore
  4. redness
  5. papule
  6. itchiness
  7. blister-like
  8. pus-filled
  9. ecchymosis
  10. hyperkeratosis
  11. erythematous
  12. callosity
  13. oedema
  14. burning-pain

Swelling Sentence Examples

  • It is a massive swelling of the earth's crust,.

  • Abscess of the Gall-bladder gives rise to a painful, tender swelling near the cartilage of the ninth rib of the right side.

  • As she watched, the bruises and swelling faded.

  • The culminating summits of the ranges generally present the appearance of a flat, rounded swelling, and when they are crowned with glaciers, as many of them are, these shape themselves into what may be described as a mantle, a breastplate, or a flat cap, from which lappets and fringes project at intervals; nowhere do there exist any of the long, narrow, winding glacier tongues which are so characteristic of the Alps of Europe.

  • Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

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