swellings

Noun

• 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)
• plural of swelling

Verb

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
• expand abnormally
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
• come up, as of a liquid
• cause to become swollen

Synonyms

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