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SWELLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling self-importance
Example:
he was swelled with pride
Synonyms:
big; swelled; vainglorious
Classified under:
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb swell
Context examples:
Catherine's heart swelled; she drew away her arm, and Isabella made no opposition.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rhythm of “God Save the King” swelled through the babel, and I heard the old lines sung in a way that made you forget their bad rhymes and their bald sentiments.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He swelled and puffed in his anger.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They limited the man at his meals, but still his girth increased and he swelled prodigiously under his shirt.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Thrice it swelled forth and thrice it sank away, echoing and reverberating amidst the crags.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A rest comes very good after one has travelled three thousand miles, and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
