Unscramble swelled

Definition of swelled

adjective:

• feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches", "had a swelled head", "he was swelled with pride". Synonyms: big, vainglorious.

verb:

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo". Synonyms: swell.
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son". Synonyms: puff up, swell.
• expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling". Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce.
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up", "Smoke swelled from it". Synonyms: swell, well up.
• come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes", "the currents well up". Synonyms: swell, well.
• cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood". Synonyms: swell.

Related words

belly, blister, bloat, bulge, bulk, distend, puff, tumefy, vesicate.

Words nearby

shelled.

Rhymes with

handheld, held, impelled, jelled, meld, quelled, shelled, weld, yelled.