Swell Past Tense

The past tense of Swell is swelled.

1. swell

verb. ['ˈswɛl'] increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.

Rhymes with Swell

• antipersonell
• industrielle
• aix-la-chapelle
• marcantel
• mademoiselle
• sanmiguel
• materiel
• jeanmichele
• esquivel
• esquibel
• clientele
• carrasquel
• carbonell
• anfal
• ransdell
• quesnel
• postrelle
• personnel
• nepl
• montiel
• mirabel
• lyondell
• get-well
• gabriele
• futrell
• frenzel
• dantrell
• cantrelle
• cantrell
• bracknell

How do you pronounce swell?

Pronounce swell as swɛl.

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Sentences with swell

1. Verb, base form
Excess DHT can bind to the prostate and cause it to swell.

2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Creaming butter with sugar may create tiny air spaces around the sugar crystals, which swell in oven heat.

Quotes about swell

1. Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
- E.L. Konigsburg

2. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
- Abraham Lincoln

2. swell

verb. ['ˈswɛl'] expand abnormally.

3. swell

noun. ['ˈswɛl'] the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.

4. swell

verb. ['ˈswɛl'] become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.

5. swell

noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).

6. swell

verb. ['ˈswɛl'] come up, as of a liquid.

7. swell

noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a crescendo followed by a decrescendo.

8. swell

adjective. ['ˈswɛl'] very good.

9. swell

verb. ['ˈswɛl'] come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).

10. swell

noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.