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Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity The music swelled to a crescendo |
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Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son |
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Expand abnormally The bellies of the starving children are swelling |
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Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) Strong emotions welled up Smoke swelled from it |
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Come up, as of a liquid Tears well in her eyes The currents well up |
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Cause to become swollen The water swells the wood |
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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 |