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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | swell, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing | Very good |
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| NOUN | 1 | swell, crestless wave | The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
| 2 | swell | A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | |
| 3 | swell | A crescendo followed by a decrescendo | |
| 4 | swell, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, fashion plate, clotheshorse | A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | |
| VERB | 1 | swell | Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity |
| 2 | swell, puff up | Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | |
| 3 | swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce | Expand abnormally | |
| 4 | swell, well up | Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | |
| 5 | swell, well | Come up, as of a liquid | |
| 6 | swell | Cause to become swollen |
| Sounds | sweh'l |
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| Rhymes | Aix-la-Chapelle, barbell, Bel, and 91 more rhymes in ehl... |
| Meaning | Very good. |
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| Synonyms | bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
| Similar to | good |
| Usage | colloquialism |
| Meaning | The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea. |
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| Synonyms | crestless wave |
| Broader | wave, moving ridge |
| Narrower | ground swell, heavy swell |
| Meaning | A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor). |
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| Broader | natural elevation, elevation |
| Meaning | A crescendo followed by a decrescendo. |
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| Broader | crescendo |
| Meaning | A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. |
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| Synonyms | dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, fashion plate, clotheshorse |
| Broader | man, adult male |
| Narrower | coxcomb, cockscomb; macaroni |
| Instances | Brummell, George Bryan Brummell, Beau Brummell |
| Meaning | Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "The music swelled to a crescendo" |
| Broader | increase |
| Meaning | Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" |
| Synonyms | puff up |
| Broader | act, behave, do |
| Meaning | Expand abnormally. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Model | Did his feet swell? |
| Examples | "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" |
| Synonyms | swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce |
| Caused by | swell |
| Broader | expand |
| Narrower | distend; belly, belly out; puff, puff up, blow up, puff out; bloat; blister, vesicate |
| Nouns | swelling |
| Meaning | Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things). |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "Smoke swelled from it" |
| Synonyms | well up |
| Broader | originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow |
| Meaning | Come up, as of a liquid. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
| Synonyms | well |
| Broader | surface, come up, rise up, rise |
| Meaning | Cause to become swollen. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The water swells the wood" |
| Cause to | swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce |
| Broader | grow |
| Narrower | bulge, bulk; tumefy; bloat |
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