swelling

Meanings

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
• 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)
• come up, as of a liquid
• cause to become swollen

Synonyms

bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, intumesce, intumescence, intumescency, jut, lump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, puff up, puffiness, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up