swollen

Speech parts

1. swollen - Adjective

2. swollen - Verb

Derived from swell

4. swollen - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Swell

p. p. of Swell.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vain conceited egotistical egotistic self-conceited swollen-headed BIG grow expand fat proud augmented blown impacted inflated
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Antonyms

knockdown narrow harsh contracted hollow depressed
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Phrases with the word

becoming swollen become swollen swollen cranium swollen optic nerves swollen-eyed swollen tonsils

Examples

How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them. Joseph Hall

(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. Stephen King

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. Mark Strand

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. Mao Zedong

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman. Margaret Atwood

To eat much leaves you with a swollen belly. Kikuyu Proverb

Close letter words and terms

swole swoleness swoll swollen assets theory swollen cranium swollen liver