Verb

1. To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

Translations

• Catalan: inflar-se
• Czech: otéct
• Dutch: zwellen, opzwellen, aanzwellen
• Finnish: turvota, paisua
• French: gonfler
• German: schwellen
• Hebrew:
• Indonesian: bengkak, membengkak
• Italian: gonfiare
• Japanese: 膨れる (fukureru), 隆起する (ryūki-suru), 腫れる (はれる, hareru)
• Nahuatl: timalla, timalloa
• Portuguese: inchar, inflamar (med.), intumescer
• Slovak: opuchnúť
• Spanish: hincharse
• Swahili: fura
• Swedish: svälla

Anagrams

• wells

Derived terms

• ground swell, groundswell
• swelling
• upswell
• wind swell

Swell could refer to:

• Swell (ocean), a formation of long wavelength ocean surface waves
• Swell (band), an indie rock band from San Francisco
• Swell, Gloucestershire, England
• Swell (bookbinding), a term in bookbinding
• Swellshark, a catshark
• Swell Foop, a book by Piers Anthony
• Swell Maps, an experimental English rock group of the 1970s
• Expression pedal, a control found on many organs and synthesizers, also called a Swell box or Swell pedal
• Another word for a fop, dandy, popinjay, or maccaroni (fashion)
• a slang term for "good", "cool", or "nifty".

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