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1. swell
verb. ['ˈswɛl'] increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.
Antonyms
- unkindness
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
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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.
Synonyms
- vesicate
- blow up
- intumesce
- puff up
- belly
- puff
- tumesce
- expand
- distend
- puff out
- swell up
- tumefy
- bloat
- blister
Antonyms
- import
- natural object
- evil
- immoral
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
3. swell
noun. ['ˈswɛl'] the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.
Synonyms
- moving ridge
- wave
- heavy swell
- ground swell
Antonyms
- plain
- contract
- obfuscate
- generalize
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
4. swell
verb. ['ˈswɛl'] become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.
Synonyms
- puff up
- behave
- do
Antonyms
- badness
- unsoundness
- unskilled
- disadvantage
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
5. swell
noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).
Synonyms
- natural elevation
Antonyms
- narrow
- disobedient
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
6. swell
verb. ['ˈswɛl'] come up, as of a liquid.
Synonyms
- well
- come up
- rise up
- rise
Antonyms
- maleficence
- immorality
- malignity
- undesirability
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
7. swell
noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a crescendo followed by a decrescendo.
Antonyms
- exhale
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
8. swell
adjective. ['ˈswɛl'] very good.
Synonyms
- slap-up
- good
- bully
- bang-up
- cracking
- dandy
- corking
- groovy
- neat
- nifty
- peachy
- keen
- not bad
- great
Antonyms
- understate
- deflate
- reduce
- criticize
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
9. swell
verb. ['ˈswɛl'] come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).
Synonyms
- develop
- well up
- spring up
- grow
- originate
- rise
- arise
Antonyms
- inoperative
- unsound
- stale
- distant
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
10. swell
noun. ['ˈswɛl'] a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
Synonyms
- beau
- cockscomb
- coxcomb
- fashion plate
- man
- dude
- dandy
- clotheshorse
- macaroni
- adult male
- fop
- gallant
Antonyms
- worse
- unfavorable
- unrespectable
- worst
Etymology
- swellen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- swellan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))