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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "swell the ranks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "swell up"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"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": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:",
"text": "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend\nThe brightest heaven of invention,\nA kingdom for a stage, princes to act\nAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, →ISBN, 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": "quote"
}
],
"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": "uṙčʻel",
"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",
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},
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
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"word": "timalla"
},
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"word": "хаоло-"
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},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svulme"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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},
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},
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"word": "enflar"
},
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},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "ota",
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"word": "شیشمك"
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"word": "hincha"
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fa",
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"word": "ورم کردن"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "آماسیدن"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "puchnąć"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "opuchnúť"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "dsb",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "wopuchnuś"
},
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"_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",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "wopuchowaś"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "hincharse"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "svälla"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bubu"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "บวม"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "th",
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"roman": "bpòong",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "โป่ง"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "th",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "พอง"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "བསྐྲངས"
},
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"_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"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bo",
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"roman": "sbos",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "སྦོས"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
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"word": "şişmek"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "tyz",
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"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "bông"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "tyz",
"lang": "Tày",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "pổng"
},
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"_dis1": "75 17 1 2 1 1 1 0 1",
"code": "tyz",
"lang": "Tày",
"sense": "intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged",
"word": "poòng"
},
{
"_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",
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"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "şişirmək"
},
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razduvam",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "раздувам"
},
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "ŝveligi"
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "turvottaa"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "paisuttaa"
},
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "gonfler"
},
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "anschwellen lassen"
},
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "πρήζω"
},
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "dagaszt"
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "duzzaszt"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "felduzzaszt"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "far gonfiare"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "whakakōpuku"
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"_dis1": "6 56 1 35 1 0 0 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "conflar"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to cause to become bigger",
"word": "inchar"
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"text": "The organ music swelled.",
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"(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
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"_dis1": "1 2 65 31 1 0 1 0 0",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "usilvam se",
"sense": "to grow gradually in force or loudness",
"word": "усилвам се"
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"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"
}
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"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": "quote"
}
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],
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"text": "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness",
"type": "example"
}
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],
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"(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 83 16 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "naduvam se",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "надувам се"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 83 16 0 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "važniča",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "важнича"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 83 16 0 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 83 16 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to raise to arrogance",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "aufplustern"
}
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{
"ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:",
"text": "Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 111:",
"text": "[…] you swell at the sight of tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be raised to arrogance."
],
"id": "en-swell-en-verb-gQwIayD7",
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]
],
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"(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 10 83 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "ylpistyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 1 10 83 1 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be raised to arrogance",
"word": "aufblasen"
}
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"ref": "1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, Volume I, Conversation 6, p. 128:",
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"_dis1": "1 3 3 42 8 7 9 2 3 1 10 10",
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"_dis1": "1 3 3 42 8 7 9 2 3 1 10 10",
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"_dis1": "1 3 3 42 8 7 9 2 3 1 10 10",
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"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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to become bigger."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to become bigger."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The organ music swelled.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:",
"text": "Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 111:",
"text": "[…] you swell at the sight of tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be raised to arrogance."
],
"links": [
[
"arrogance",
"arrogance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be elated; to rise arrogantly."
],
"links": [
[
"elated",
"elated"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "swelling words a swelling style",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A cask swells in the middle.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To protuberate; to bulge out."
],
"links": [
[
"protuberate",
"protuberate"
],
[
"bulge",
"bulge"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "swĕl"
},
{
"ipa": "/swɛl/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"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": "uṙčʻel",
"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",
"lang": "Chechen",
"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",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sw",
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"ref": "1906, Gilbert Parker, chapter 8, in The Trespasser:",
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"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "swell (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very well."
],
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"well",
"well"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Canada, US, informal) Very well."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"informal",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "swĕl"
},
{
"ipa": "/swɛl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swell.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swell.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swell.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swell.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swell.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛl"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"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"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"swell"
],
"word": "swell"
}
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