"swell the ranks" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swells the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelling the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelled the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelled the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swollen the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swell<,,,:swollen> the ranks"
      },
      "expansion": "swell the ranks (third-person singular simple present swells the ranks, present participle swelling the ranks, simple past swelled the ranks, past participle swelled the ranks or swollen the ranks)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Western Australia. Education Department ·, Report, page cxxviii",
          "text": "All through the Empire the unskilled labourer is the one who feels the stress of hard times, when they do come, the most, and it is this class that goes very largely to swell the ranks of the unemployed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, E. Dorian Gadsden, Progress Against the Tide, page 186",
          "text": "Virtually all of them will swell the ranks of law-abiding, industrious, self-sufficient and successful young Americans, while the numbers among the wayward lawless, dependent, and destitute are noticeably reduced.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Giancarlo Colombo, Who's who in Italy 1998, page 2614",
          "text": "To these must, accordingly, be added some one hundred more companies, not qualifying for consolidation, but which, nevertheless, swell the ranks of the Generali Group-owned companies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add significant numbers of members (to a group);"
      ],
      "id": "en-swell_the_ranks-en-verb-rRKBTYQj",
      "links": [
        [
          "of",
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        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive with of) To add significant numbers of members (to a group);"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive-with-of"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "kasvattaa määrää (jonkun)"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "grossir les rangs"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swell the ranks"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swells the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelling the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelled the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swelled the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swollen the ranks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swell<,,,:swollen> the ranks"
      },
      "expansion": "swell the ranks (third-person singular simple present swells the ranks, present participle swelling the ranks, simple past swelled the ranks, past participle swelled the ranks or swollen the ranks)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Western Australia. Education Department ·, Report, page cxxviii",
          "text": "All through the Empire the unskilled labourer is the one who feels the stress of hard times, when they do come, the most, and it is this class that goes very largely to swell the ranks of the unemployed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, E. Dorian Gadsden, Progress Against the Tide, page 186",
          "text": "Virtually all of them will swell the ranks of law-abiding, industrious, self-sufficient and successful young Americans, while the numbers among the wayward lawless, dependent, and destitute are noticeably reduced.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Giancarlo Colombo, Who's who in Italy 1998, page 2614",
          "text": "To these must, accordingly, be added some one hundred more companies, not qualifying for consolidation, but which, nevertheless, swell the ranks of the Generali Group-owned companies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add significant numbers of members (to a group);"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "of",
          "of#English"
        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive with of) To add significant numbers of members (to a group);"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive-with-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "kasvattaa määrää (jonkun)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "grossir les rangs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "swell the ranks"
}