swell

Meanings

Plural: swells

Noun

• the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
• a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
• a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
• The act of swelling; increase in size.
• A bulge or protuberance.
• Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
• A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
• A person of high social standing; an important person.
• The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

Verb

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
  • "The music swelled to a crescendo"
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  • "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
• expand abnormally
  • "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
  • "Smoke swelled from it"
• come up, as of a liquid
• cause to become swollen
  • "The water swells the wood"
• To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• To cause to become bigger.
• To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
• To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• To be raised to arrogance.
• To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• To protuberate; to bulge out.

Adjective Satellite

• very good

Adj

• Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
• Excellent.

Adv

• Very well.

Synonyms

bang-up, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, bully, carpet knight, clotheshorse, cockscomb, corking, cracking, crestless wave, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashion plate, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fork, fribble, gallant, go, great, groovy, intumesce, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, keen, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, petit maître, pommel, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puff up, puss-gentleman, sheik, slap-up, smart, smashing, spark, spiff, swell, swell up, tippy, toff, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up

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