swell

/swɛl/

verb

1
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
2
To cause to become bigger.
“Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.”
3
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
“The organ music swelled.”
4
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
“to be swelled with pride or haughtiness”
5
To be raised to arrogance.
6
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
7
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
“swelling words a swelling style”
8
To protuberate; to bulge out.
“A cask swells in the middle.”

1
The act of swelling; increase in size.
2
A bulge or protuberance.
3
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
4
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
5
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
6
A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
7
A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
8
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
10
A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
11
A person of high social standing; an important person.
12
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

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