Sekirov Dictionary

swell

/swɛl/

verb9

  1. to grow larger and push out, often because of water or air inside
  2. To cause to become bigger.
  3. To protuberate; to bulge out.
  4. To grow gradually in force or loudness.
  5. To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
  6. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
  7. To be raised to arrogance.
  8. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  9. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

noun12

  1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
  2. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  4. A bulge or protuberance.
  5. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  6. An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
  7. A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  8. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  9. (informal, old-fashioned) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
  10. A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  11. A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

adjective2

  1. (slang, old-fashioned) Excellent.
  2. (old-fashioned) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.

adverb1

  1. (US, informal) Very well.
forms

swell'd · swelled · swole · swoll · swollen · swelling · swells · swellest · sweller · swellest

Phrases with swell

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