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English to English adjective
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Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. |  | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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very good | | Example: he did a bully job
a neat sports car
had a great time at the party
you look simply smashing
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noun
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the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | | source: wordnet30
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a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | | source: wordnet30
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a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | | source: wordnet30
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a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | | source: wordnet30
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The act of swelling. | | source: webster1913
verb
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increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | | Example: The music swelled to a crescendo
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become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | | Example: The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
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expand abnormally | | Example: The bellies of the starving children are swelling
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come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | | Example: Strong emotions welled up
Smoke swelled from it
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come up, as of a liquid | | Example: Tears well in her eyes
the currents well up
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cause to become swollen | | Example: The water swells the wood
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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. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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