| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelled | (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: big, vainglorious |
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| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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