swelled

Meanings

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
  • "The music swelled to a crescendo"
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
• expand abnormally
• 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
• feeling self-importance
  • "had a swelled head"
  • "he was swelled with pride"

Synonyms

big, intumesce, puff up, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, vainglorious, well, well up