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verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.Examples: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"; "“If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you’ll just go like my pore young sister goed, […] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole.” “You mean ‘swelled,’ Cookoo,” corrected Lucille […] “[…] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”"; "She had overheard her Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, "Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic^([sic]), I guess he woulda choked to death.""intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.Examples: "Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring."; "Mildly it [the wind] kist our sailes, and, fresh, and sweet, As, to a stomack sterv’d, whose insides meete, Meate comes, it came; and swole our sailes, when wee So joyd, as Sara’ her swelling joy’d to see."; "’Tis low ebb sure with his Accuser, when such Peccadillos as these are put in to swell the Charge."transitive
3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.Examples: "The organ music swelled."intransitive
4. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.Examples: "It commenced with a slow crescendo, so irresistibly lugubrious that two of our dogs at once raised their heads and swelled their voices into a responsive tremolo, which may have been heard and appreciated by their distant relatives."transitive
5. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.Examples: "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness"transitive
6. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.Examples: "Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock."; "[…] you swell at the sight of tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.Examples: "He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts."countableuncountable
2. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.countableuncountable
3. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.countableuncountable
4. (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.countableuncountable
5. (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.Examples: "It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?"; "He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell."; "Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side."Synonyms: dandy, dude, toff, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buckcountabledatedinformaluncountable
6. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.Examples: ""I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." "I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell."; "The only sensible man I came across was the cabman who drove me about. A broken-down swell he was, I fancy."; "You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!"Synonyms: toffcountableinformaluncountable
adj (English)
1. (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.Examples: "We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much."datednot-comparableusually
2. (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.Examples: "...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy."; "Jeff swaggered over to Ned Beaumont, threw his left arm roughly around his shoulders, seized Ned Beaumont’s right hand with his right hand, and addressed the company jovially: “This is the swellest guy I ever skinned a knuckle on and I’ve skinned them on plenty.”"; "He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all, […]"CanadaUSdatednot-comparableslangusually
adv (English)
1. (Canada, US, informal) Very well.Examples: "“That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.”"; "“[…] Last August, when I left The Walls, I figured I had every chance to start new. I got a job in Olathe, lived with my family, and stayed home nights. I was doing swell—”"CanadaUSinformalnot-comparable
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