I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
swell with pride (= start to feel very proud )
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He would swell with pride as he discussed his department’s achievements.
swell...coffers
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The money from the exhibition should swell the hospital’s coffers a little.
swollen/high (= containing more water than usual )
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After the rains, the river was swollen.
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The river was high and running quite swiftly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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Josie's hand slipped on the grater and a bright bead of blood swelled out of her forefinger.
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The land seascape had an abandoned quality and a largeness that made the heart swell out to fill it.
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Different kinds of reactions start, and the star swells out to become a Red Giant, as Betelgeux is today.
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Gradually the balloon swelled out and rose into the air, until finally the basket just touched the ground.
up
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I was a big guy in those days and my legs swelled up .
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Then we saw the alligator swell up .
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Its bite produces a worm which swells up the blood vessels, causing ulcers and, in the worst cases, blindness.
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If a blood vessel in your leg were to rupture, the leg would just swell up .
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She says she didn't notice at first but her arm began to swell up later.
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A friend of mine got stung by a bee and swelled up and died.
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My oldest daughter, poor girl, swelled up like an elephant.
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There were flies now-a low droning buzz that swelled up from somewhere deep inside the village.
■ NOUN
face
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Her lips were swollen against her pale face and the sight of her distress seemed to infuriate him more.
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His lip was swollen , his face discolored.
head
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The price on the Roses' heads seems to swell almost daily.
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The right side of her body is badly bruised and her head and eye are swollen .
heart
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Her heart seemed to swell in her chest - she could not get her breath!
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The land seascape had an abandoned quality and a largeness that made the heart swell out to fill it.
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Very occasionally my heart swells at the rounded figure of the 8 inside my jeans.
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When she saw that the new bride was Snow White, her evil heart swelled with passion and burst.
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His heart swelled at the very look of her; he was thrilled to see her eating like a stevedore.
leg
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Sometimes, with the parasitic cases, elephantiasis had set in, and the swollen legs were particularly horrible.
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Her head was swirling, her mind was racing, her ankle was swelling and her left leg was numb.
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Usually less serious, but just as annoying, are swollen ankles and leg cramps that can strike.
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Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress.
lip
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I had bruises and a swollen lip .
numbers
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Higher insurance costs will make it harder to afford coverage, swelling the numbers of uninsured.
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But despite the attraction of Page 3 girls handing out t-shirts, only 9 fans joined in to swell the numbers .
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It ended in the 1930s when another depression swelled the numbers of itinerant workers.
population
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The youthful immigrants who swelled the population were attracted not only from the Vale of York but from far beyond.
river
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So fierce was the rain that it swelled the river until its banks burst and the fields were flooded.
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It was said that the rains had swollen a river to a point where it was threatening a bridge on the line.
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Water drained off fields throughout the day, swelling rivers .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have a swollen head/be swollen-headed
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Put some ice on your knee before it swells up.
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The doors always swell in the winter.
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The river was swelling rapidly with the constant rain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was a big guy in those days and my legs swelled up.
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If it is physically restrained from swelling when it wants to swell, very considerable pressures are built up.
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It is a star in serious trouble, with bright bloated lobes of gas swelling off it, announcing its death throes.
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Opposite were the elegant backs of Victorian houses, their grey bricks swelling into bow-windows, the roof-tiles glistening like wet flint.
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When the granulomas infiltrate the root of the lungs, nearby lymph nodes swell and produce the X-ray abnormality your doctor saw.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness.
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The timing in the heavy swell had to be carefully judged.
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A heavy ground swell was encountered off Tiumpan Head.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the swell of her breasts
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The scandal has produced swells of protest against him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness.
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A strong north-westerly wind built up a fifteen-foot swell which came rolling down on us, crests breaking.
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One such dawn breaks at Ocean Beach and the swell is up.
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The swell had built steadily over the past half-hour.
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The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion.
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The launch, however, behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell .
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Dobler said he really was a swell guy.
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By noon, the swell at the Bay had built to eighteen to twenty feet.
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If you can avoid heroin addiction and motorcycle accidents, you might have a swell time.
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It was a swell place to raise onions.
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The ground dipped between two minor cliffs, and the architect must have figured they would make swell windbreaks.