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"derived": [
{
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"word": "swell the ranks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "swell up"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "swellen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English swellen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "swellan",
"4": "",
"5": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Old English swellan (“to swell”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*swellan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *swellan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*swellaną",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "swälle",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "swolle",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian swolle (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "zwellen",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zwellen (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "swellen",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Low German swellen (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schwellen",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "German schwellen (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "svälla",
"t": "to swell"
},
"expansion": "Swedish svälla (“to swell”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "svella"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic svella",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin.\nCognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swells",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swelling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swelled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swole",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swoll",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swollen",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "swollen",
"past2": "swole",
"past3": "swoll",
"past_ptc2": "swelled"
},
"expansion": "swell (third-person singular simple present swells, present participle swelling, simple past swelled or swole or swoll, past participle swollen or swelled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1914, P. C. Wren, chapter 5, in Snake and Sword, London: Longmans, Green, page 78",
"text": "“If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.”\n“You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […]\n“[…] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, pages 67–68",
"text": "She had overheard her Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, \"Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic, I guess he woulda choked to death.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become bigger, especially due to being engorged."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-dry4egur",
"links": [
[
"engorge",
"engorge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "akl",
"lang": "Aklanon",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "habok"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ënj (tosk)"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "âj (gheg)"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "intafaḵa",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "اِنْتَفَخَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "warima",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "وَرِمَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "uṙel",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ուռել"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "uṙčʿel",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ուռչել"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "phula",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ফুলা"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "şişmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "phōla",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ফোলা"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poduvam se",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "подувам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflar-se"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "rebotir"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "unflar-se"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ce",
"lang": "Chechen",
"roman": "desta",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "деста"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨脹"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "péngzhàng",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨胀"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "擴大"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kuòdà",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "扩大"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lóngqǐ",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "隆起"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "otéct"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "otéci"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "zduřet"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opuchnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "napuchnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "naběhnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "erigere"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "zwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opzwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "aanzwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ŝveli"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bólgna"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hovna"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "trútna"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "túsna upp"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "týsna upp"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svølpast"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svølla upp"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gerast hovin og trútin"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "turvota"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "paisua"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gonfler"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "enfler"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "incharse"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "schwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "anschwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prízomai",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "πρήζομαι"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "oidéō",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "οἰδέω"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "avov",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "אבב"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "dagad"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "duzzad"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "megdagad"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "megduzzad"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "intumecar"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "membengkak"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "inh",
"lang": "Ingush",
"roman": "desta",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "деста"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gonfiarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ingrossarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukureru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨れる"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryūki-suru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "隆起する"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"alt": "はれる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hareru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "腫れる"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "abuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "haəm",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ហើម"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bupulda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "부풀다"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "butda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "붓다"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "paengchanghada",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "팽창하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bueooreuda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "부어오르다"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tyukšt"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tumeō"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "intumēscō"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "turgescō"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "adaestuō"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tūkt"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pūstis"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "from inflammation",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tinti"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "lt",
"english": "chiefly with moisture",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "brinkti"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "membengkak"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "mooadee"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tōuwha"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "whakaahu"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "kōpuku"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pupuhi"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "uru(h)umu"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "sujṇe",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "सुजणे"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "timalla"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "timalloa"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "haolo-",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "хаоло-"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svelle"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svelle"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "enflar"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "conflar"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şişmek",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "شیشمك"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kabarmak",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "قبارمق"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "pap",
"lang": "Papiamentu",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hincha"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "varam kardan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ورم کردن"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âmâsidan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "آماسیدن"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "puchnąć"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "powiększać"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pęcznieć"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inchar"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "punkiy"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "saksay"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "se umfla"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "unflar"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razduvátʹsja",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "раздува́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nabuxátʹ",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "набуха́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčivatʹsja",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "увели́чиваться"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "sèid"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "usciari"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opuchnúť"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wopuchnuś"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wopuchowaś"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hincharse"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bareuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "fura"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "vimba"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svälla"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bubu"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "buuam",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "บวม"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpòong",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "โป่ง"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pɔɔng",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "พอง"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "bskrangs",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "བསྐྲངས"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sbo",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "སྦོ"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sbos",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "སྦོས"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "şişmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "sưng"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "chwyddo"
},
{
"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opzwelle"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1633, John Donne, “The Storme”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 57",
"text": "Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet,\nAs, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete,\nMeate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee\nSo joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, Oxford, page 12",
"text": "’Tis low ebb sure with his Accuser, when such Peccadillos as these are put in to swell the Charge.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21",
"text": "After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to become bigger."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-jR~nMGtq",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to become bigger."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "şişirmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razduvam",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "раздувам"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "ŝveligi"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "turvottaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "paisuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "gonfler"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "anschwellen lassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prízo",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "πρήζω"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "dagaszt"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "duzzaszt"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "felduzzaszt"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "far gonfiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "whakakōpuku"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "conflar"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "inchar"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 56 1 34 1 0 0 0 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "şişirmek"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The organ music swelled.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-3WWq2TzE",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 65 31 1 0 1 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "usilvam se",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "усилвам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 65 31 1 0 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "voimistua"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 65 31 1 0 1 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "anschwellen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches, page 57",
"text": "It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-uB-8P~cY",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 5 4 5 28 25 21 6 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
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"name": "English verbs with weak preterite but strong past participle",
"parents": [],
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},
{
"_dis": "11 3 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 22 5 0 0 0 0 14 0 6 6 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-7LurHU9H",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 1 63 33 2 1 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naduvam se",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "надувам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 1 63 33 2 1 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "važniča",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "важнича"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 1 63 33 2 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 1 63 33 2 1 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
],
"word": "aufplustern"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 5 4 5 28 25 21 6 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be raised to arrogance."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-gQwIayD7",
"links": [
[
"arrogance",
"arrogance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 24 70 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 1 24 70 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "aufblasen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 5 4 5 28 25 21 6 2",
"kind": "other",
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1662, John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day, London: Henry Herringman, page 5",
"text": "In all things else above our humble fate\nYour equal mind yet swells not into state,\nBut like some mountain in those happy Isles\nWhere in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles,\nYour greatnesse shows:",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be elated; to rise arrogantly."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-nwyw5wsS",
"links": [
[
"elated",
"elated"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "swelling words a swelling style",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-~Pp9E0id",
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 2 1 1 95 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant",
"word": "pöyhkeillä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 2 1 1 95 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant",
"word": "geschwollen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A cask swells in the middle.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To protuberate; to bulge out."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-v~hZlIT2",
"links": [
[
"protuberate",
"protuberate"
],
[
"bulge",
"bulge"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 92",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "pullistua"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 92",
"code": "de",
"english": "process",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "anschwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 92",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "aufwölben"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 2 2 1 1 0 92",
"code": "de",
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{
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"word": "super"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "glücklich"
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{
"code": "de",
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"ref": "1914, P. C. Wren, chapter 5, in Snake and Sword, London: Longmans, Green, page 78",
"text": "“If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.”\n“You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […]\n“[…] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”",
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{
"ref": "1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, pages 67–68",
"text": "She had overheard her Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, \"Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic, I guess he woulda choked to death.\"",
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"ref": "1633, John Donne, “The Storme”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 57",
"text": "Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet,\nAs, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete,\nMeate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee\nSo joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation, Oxford, page 12",
"text": "’Tis low ebb sure with his Accuser, when such Peccadillos as these are put in to swell the Charge.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-21",
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"text": "The organ music swelled.",
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"To grow gradually in force or loudness."
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"(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness."
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"ref": "1880, Felix Leopold Oswald, Summerland Sketches, page 57",
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"text": "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness",
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"To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
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],
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"transitive"
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"To be raised to arrogance."
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"(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance."
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"ref": "1662, John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-Years-Day, London: Henry Herringman, page 5",
"text": "In all things else above our humble fate\nYour equal mind yet swells not into state,\nBut like some mountain in those happy Isles\nWhere in perpetual Spring young Nature smiles,\nYour greatnesse shows:",
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"code": "akl",
"lang": "Aklanon",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "habok"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ënj (tosk)"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "âj (gheg)"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "intafaḵa",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "اِنْتَفَخَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "warima",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "وَرِمَ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "uṙel",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ուռել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "uṙčʿel",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ուռչել"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "phula",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ফুলা"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "şişmək"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "phōla",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ফোলা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "poduvam se",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "подувам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflar-se"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "rebotir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "unflar-se"
},
{
"code": "ce",
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"roman": "desta",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "деста"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨脹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "péngzhàng",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨胀"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "擴大"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kuòdà",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "扩大"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lóngqǐ",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "隆起"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "otéct"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "otéci"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "zduřet"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opuchnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "napuchnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "naběhnout"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "erigere"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "zwellen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opzwellen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "aanzwellen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ŝveli"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bólgna"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hovna"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "trútna"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "túsna upp"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "týsna upp"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svølpast"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svølla upp"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gerast hovin og trútin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "turvota"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "paisua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gonfler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "enfler"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflarse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "incharse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "schwellen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "anschwellen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prízomai",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "πρήζομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "oidéō",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "οἰδέω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "avov",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "אבב"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "dagad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "duzzad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "megdagad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "megduzzad"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "intumecar"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "membengkak"
},
{
"code": "inh",
"lang": "Ingush",
"roman": "desta",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "деста"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "gonfiarsi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ingrossarsi"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fukureru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "膨れる"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryūki-suru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "隆起する"
},
{
"alt": "はれる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hareru",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "腫れる"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "abuh"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "haəm",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ហើម"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bupulda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "부풀다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "butda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "붓다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "paengchanghada",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "팽창하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bueooreuda",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "부어오르다"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tyukšt"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tumeō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "intumēscō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "turgescō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "adaestuō"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tūkt"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pūstis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "from inflammation",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tinti"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"english": "chiefly with moisture",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "brinkti"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "membengkak"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "mooadee"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "tōuwha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "whakaahu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "kōpuku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pupuhi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "uru(h)umu"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "sujṇe",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "सुजणे"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "timalla"
},
{
"code": "nah",
"lang": "Nahuatl",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "timalloa"
},
{
"code": "gld",
"lang": "Nanai",
"roman": "haolo-",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "хаоло-"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svelle"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svelle"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "enflar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "conflar"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "şişmek",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "شیشمك"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kabarmak",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "قبارمق"
},
{
"code": "pap",
"lang": "Papiamentu",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hincha"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "varam kardan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "ورم کردن"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "âmâsidan",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "آماسیدن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "puchnąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "powiększać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pęcznieć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inchar"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "punkiy"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "saksay"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "se umfla"
},
{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "unflar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razduvátʹsja",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "раздува́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nabuxátʹ",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "набуха́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčivatʹsja",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "увели́чиваться"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "sèid"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "usciari"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opuchnúť"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "wopuchnuś"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wopuchowaś"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hincharse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "inflarse"
},
{
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bareuh"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "fura"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "vimba"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svälla"
},
{
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bubu"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "buuam",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "บวม"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpòong",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "โป่ง"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pɔɔng",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "พอง"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "bskrangs",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "བསྐྲངས"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sbo",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "སྦོ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sbos",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "སྦོས"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "şişmek"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "sưng"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "chwyddo"
},
{
"code": "zea",
"lang": "Zealandic",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opzwelle"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "şişirmək"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razduvam",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "раздувам"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "ŝveligi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "turvottaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "paisuttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "gonfler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "anschwellen lassen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prízo",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "πρήζω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "dagaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "duzzaszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "felduzzaszt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "far gonfiare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "whakakōpuku"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "conflar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "inchar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "şişirmek"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "usilvam se",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "усилвам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "voimistua"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "anschwellen"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naduvam se",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "надувам се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "važniča",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "важнича"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyttää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
],
"word": "aufplustern"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "aufblasen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant",
"word": "pöyhkeillä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant",
"word": "geschwollen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "pullistua"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "process",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "anschwellen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "aufwölben"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "ausbauchen"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "kidudorodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "kidomborodik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to protuberate; to bulge out",
"word": "kidülled"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division."
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
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]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
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],
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{
"ref": "1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 2, in The Last of the Chiefs",
"text": "Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. \"Antelope,\" said the hunters.",
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}
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"A hillock or similar raised area of terrain."
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[
"hillock",
"hillock"
],
[
"terrain",
"terrain"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Geology"
],
"glosses": [
"An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle."
],
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[
"geology",
"geology"
],
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"upward",
"upward"
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"protrusion",
"protrusion"
],
[
"strata",
"stratum"
],
[
"bed",
"bed"
],
[
"quaquaversal",
"quaquaversal"
]
],
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"countable",
"uncountable"
],
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"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
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"ref": "c. 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Kickleburys on the Rhine”, in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh",
"text": "It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?",
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},
{
"ref": "1887, Horatio Alger, chapter 9, in The Cash Boy",
"text": "He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36",
"text": "Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.",
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}
],
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"stylish",
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"fancy"
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[
"elegant",
"elegant"
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"countable",
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"ref": "1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Small House at Allington",
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{
"ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 176",
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},
{
"ref": "1906, Gilbert Parker, chapter 8, in The Trespasser",
"text": "You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!",
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},
{
"ref": "1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, published 2002, Part Seven, Chapter 3, p. 209",
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"neuter"
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"code": "da",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
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"masculine"
],
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"plural"
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{
"code": "el",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "el",
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],
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{
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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{
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{
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{
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"code": "nah",
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{
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],
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{
"code": "oc",
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{
"code": "oc",
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{
"code": "ota",
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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"word": "falowanie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"word": "val"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"word": "valuri"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "sa",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "क्षोदस्"
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{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "mar de fondo"
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{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"word": "kivimbe"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"word": "dyning"
},
{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kifuku",
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"code": "sw",
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"code": "bg",
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"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "de",
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"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "bg",
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],
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{
"code": "bg",
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "de",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Geck"
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "de",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "de",
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],
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"ref": "1927 Mar. 31, Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald",
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"ref": "1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, page 176",
"text": "Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”",
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"ref": "2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, “The Space In Between”, in The New Yorker",
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"(Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent."
],
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"ipa": "/swɛl/"
},
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},
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"enpr": "swĕl"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "moden",
"sense": "fashionable — see also fashionable",
"word": "моден"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "eleganten",
"sense": "fashionable — see also fashionable",
"word": "елегантен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fashionable — see also fashionable",
"word": "makea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fashionable — see also fashionable",
"word": "siisti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fashionable — see also fashionable",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "adrett"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otličen",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "отличен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎrvoklasen",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "първокласен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "excel·lent"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "geweldig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "mieters"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "mahtava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "sensass"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "chouette"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "klasse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "prima"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "klassz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "szuper"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "tök jó"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "subarashii",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "素晴らしい"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "excelente"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "ótimo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "super"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "senzațional"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "minunat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otlíčnyj",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "отли́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prevosxódnyj",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "превосхо́дный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "excellent — see also excellent",
"word": "excelente"
}
],
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"swell"
],
"word": "swell"
}
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"en:People"
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"etymology_text": "From the noun \"swell\" (a person dressed in an elegant manner).",
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"pos": "adv",
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"categories": [
"American English",
"Canadian English",
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 12, in Red Harvest",
"text": "That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 2013, Part 3, p. 251",
"text": "[…] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Very well."
],
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"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"well",
"well"
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"(Canada, US, informal) Very well."
],
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"US",
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"not-comparable"
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}
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{
"rhymes": "-ɛl"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otlično",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "отлично"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "hienosti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "hyvin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "super"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "glücklich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very well",
"word": "prima"
}
],
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"swell"
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}
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