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swelling

noun

1 swelling

An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.

synonyms: lump, puffiness.

Polish: opuchlizna, obrzmienie, obrzęk

2 swelling

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.

synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion ... show more.

Roget 250: convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.].    thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].    swell.    intumescence; ... show more

Dutch: bult, extrusie, buik, hobbel

3 swelling

The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).

synonyms: intumescence, intumescency.

Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, ... show more


adjective

Roget 577: ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, ... show more

Roget 824: excited etc. v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir, sparkling; in a quiver etc. 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore ... show more.

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