Sekirov Dictionary

swell the ranks

verb1

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To add significant numbers of members (to a group).
- To these must, accordingly, be added some one hundred more companies, not qualifying for consolidation, but which, nevertheless, swell the ranks of the Generali Group-owned companies. — 1998

forms

swelled the ranks · swollen the ranks · swelling the ranks · swells the ranks

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