Crossword-Solution: SWELL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Swell | v. i. | To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. |
| Swell | v. i. | To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish. |
| Swell | v. i. | To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves. |
| Swell | v. i. | To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride. |
| Swell | v. i. | To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell. |
| Swell | v. i. | To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style. |
| Swell | v. i. | To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle. |
| Swell | v. i. | To be elated; to rise arrogantly. |
| Swell | v. i. | To grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand. |
| Swell | v. i. | To become larger in amount; as, many little debts added, swell to a great amount. |
| Swell | v. i. | To act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. |
| Swell | v. t. | To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase; as, rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. |
| Swell | v. t. | To aggravate; to heighten. |
| Swell | v. t. | To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness. |
| Swell | v. t. | To augment gradually in force or loudness, as the sound of a note. |
| Swell | n. | The act of swelling. |
| Swell | n. | Gradual increase. |
| Swell | n. | Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance. |
| Swell | n. | Increase in height; elevation; rise. |
| Swell | n. | Increase of force, intensity, or volume of sound. |
| Swell | n. | Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force. |
| Swell | n. | A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells. |
| Swell | n. | A wave, or billow; especially, a succession of large waves; the roll of the sea after a storm; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. |
| Swell | n. | A gradual increase and decrease of the volume of sound; the crescendo and diminuendo combined; -- generally indicated by the sign. |
| Swell | n. | A showy, dashing person; a dandy. |
| Swell | a. | Having the characteristics of a person of rank and importance; showy; dandified; distinguished; as, a swell person; a swell neighborhood. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SWELL | anagram | WELLS |
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Sentences with SWELL (5)
The little town behind them had vanished as if it had never been, had fallen behind the swell of the prairie, and the stern frozen country received them into its bosom.
The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
And never the sleepless fountains cease That feed Cephisus’ stream, But they swell earth’s bosom with quick increase, And their wave hath a crystal gleam.
Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship-owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston.
Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
Quotes with SWELL (3)
I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her — after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred — I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever — for all the world a little patient still in the confusio…
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 104 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).