What does swollen mean?
Definitions for swollen
ˈswoʊ lənswollen
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Princeton's WordNet
conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vainadjective
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
"a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
Webster Dictionary
Swollen
of Swell
Swollen
p. p. of Swell
Swollenadjective
enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Swollen
swōln, pa.p. of swell.
Anagrams for swollen »
nowells
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of swollen in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of swollen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of swollen in a Sentence
By the next morning, my face and nose was swollen, and my face was starting to get a crusty rash on it like a burn.
Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt.
The soil is saturated with rain and the rivers are already swollen, so the emergency is likely to get worse from flooding in the next few days.
( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen.
South African artist William Kentridge:
The Tiber is a river swollen with glory and pain. On one side the fortune of the popes, on the other the suffering of the Jewish Ghetto. Above ... a pulsating, splendid city; below, under the bridges, the desperation of the homeless.
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