swelling

Plural: swellings

Noun

• An abnormal protuberance or increased size of a body part.
• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
• The state of being swollen.
• Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
• A rising, as of passion or anger.

Verb

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  • "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
• expand abnormally
  • "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
• come up, as of a liquid
• cause to become swollen
• present participle and gerund of swell

Examples

• The SWELLING of his points total was visible as he scored over 100 on one play.

Synonyms

bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, intumesce, intumescence, intumescency, jut, lump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, puff up, puffiness, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up

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