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Exact Match:

swell

a crescendo followed by a decrescendo

the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"

increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

Synonyms:

• Babylonian,
• Beau Brummel,
• Brahman,
• Corinthian,
• OK,
• accent,
• accent mark,
• accrue,
• accumulate,
• ace-high,
• add to,
• advance,
• aggrandize,
• amplify,
• anthill,
• appreciate,
• archduke,
• aristocrat,
• armiger,
• augment,
• awake the dead,
• awe-inspiring,
• awful,
• bad,
• bag,
• balloon,
• bang-up,
• bar,
• barbaric,
• baron,
• baronet,
• barrow,
• be poised,
• beau,
• belly,
• belly out,
• bilge,
• billow,
• blade,
• blast,
• blast the ear,
• bloat,
• bloatedness,
• bloating,
• blood,
• blow up,
• blowing up,
• blue blood,
• boil,
• bonzer,
• boom,
• boost,
• bore,
• bosom,
• boss,
• bouge,
• boulevardier,
• brae,
• braw,
• break,
• breakers,
• breed,
• broaden,
• broadening,
• bug,
• build,
• build up,
• bulge,
• bulk,
• bulk out,
• bully,
• bump,
• bunion,
• but good,
• butte,
• cancel,
• carbuncle,
• character,
• chic,
• choir,
• chop,
• choppiness,
• chopping sea,
• classy,
• claviature,
• clothes-conscious,
• clotheshorse,
• cock,
• comb,
• comber,
• console,
• cool,
• corking,
• corn,
• cosmopolitan,
• count,
• coxcomb,
• crackerjack,
• crash,
• crescendo,
• custos,
• cyst,
• dab,
• dabster,
• daimio,
• dandy,
• dapper,
• dash,
• dashing,
• deafen,
• delicious,
• deluxe,
• develop,
• diastole,
• dilatation,
• dilate,
• dilation,
• din,
• direct,
• dirty water,
• distend,
• distension,
• dot,
• down,
• dressed to advantage,
• dressed to kill,
• dropsy,
• drumlin,
• ducky,
• dude,
• duke,
• dune,
• eagre,
• earl,
• ebb and flow,
• echo,
• edema,
• eighty-eight,
• elaborate,
• elegant,
• enlarge,
• enlargement,
• esquire,
• expand,
• expansion,
• expression mark,
• exquisite,
• extend,
• extension,
• extravagant,
• fab,
• fancy,
• fashion plate,
• fashionable,
• fatten,
• fell,
• fermata,
• fidget,
• fill out,
• fill the air,
• fine,
• fine and dandy,
• fine gentleman,
• fingerboard,
• first-class,
• first-rate,
• flatulence,
• flatulency,
• flatus,
• flip out,
• flutter,
• foothills,
• fop,
• freak out on,
• fribble,
• fullness,
• furuncle,
• gain,
• gain strength,
• gallant,
• gassiness,
• gear,
• genteel,
• gentleman,
• get ahead,
• get high on,
• glorious,
• glow,
• go pitapat,
• go up,
• goggle,
• grand,
• grand duke,
• grandee,
• grandiose,
• gravity wave,
• great,
• greaten,
• groovy,
• ground swell,
• grow,
• have the fidgets,
• have the shakes,
• hear,
• heave,
• heavy,
• heavy sea,
• heavy swell,
• hidalgo,
• hike,
• hike up,
• hill,
• hillock,
• hold,
• hot,
• huff,
• hummock,
• hunky-dory,
• imposing,
• impressive,
• increase,
• inflate,
• inflation,
• intensify,
• intensity,
• intumescence,
• ivories,
• jack-a-dandy,
• jackanapes,
• jam-up,
• jaunty,
• jerk,
• just dandy,
• keen,
• key signature,
• keyboard,
• keys,
• knob,
• knoll,
• lace-curtain,
• lady-killer,
• laird,
• landgrave,
• lead,
• lift,
• ligature,
• look big,
• lop,
• lord,
• lordling,
• loudishness,
• loudness,
• lounge lizard,
• lump,
• luxurious,
• macaroni,
• magnate,
• magnificent,
• magnifico,
• magnify,
• majestic,
• man-about-town,
• manual,
• margrave,
• mark,
• marquis,
• marvy,
• masher,
• master,
• mean,
• measure,
• meteorism,
• metronomic mark,
• modish,
• molehill,
• monticle,
• monticule,
• moor,
• mound,
• mount,
• multiply,
• mushroom,
• natty,
• neat,
• nifty,
• nob,
• nobby,
• noble,
• nobleman,
• notation,
• okay,
• optimate,
• organ manual,
• out of sight,
• overdevelop,
• overdistend,
• overdraw,
• overexpand,
• overextend,
• overstrain,
• overstretch,
• palatial,
• palpitate,
• palsgrave,
• pant,
• past master,
• patrician,
• pause,
• peachy,
• peachy-keen,
• peacock,
• peak,
• peal,
• pedals,
• peer,
• piano keys,
• pimple,
• plush,
• pock,
• pontificate,
• pooch,
• pop,
• popple,
• posh,
• pouch,
• pout,
• presa,
• princely,
• pro,
• proliferate,
• proud,
• puff,
• puff up,
• puffiness,
• puffing,
• pump,
• pump up,
• puppy,
• pustule,
• put on,
• put on airs,
• put on side,
• quake,
• quaver,
• quiver,
• raise,
• rarefy,
• rattle the windows,
• recherche,
• rend the air,
• rend the ears,
• resound,
• riffle,
• ring,
• ripping,
• ripple,
• rise,
• rise and fall,
• rising,
• ritz it,
• ritzy,
• rock the sky,
• roll,
• roller,
• rough water,
• round out,
• rum,
• run up,
• sand dune,
• scend,
• scrumptious,
• sea,
• sebaceous cyst,
• segno,
• seigneur,
• seignior,
• send,
• shake,
• sharp,
• shiver,
• shoot up,
• sign,
• signature,
• silk-stocking,
• slap-up,
• sleek,
• slur,
• smart,
• smash,
• smashing,
• smug,
• snazzy,
• snowball,
• soigne,
• soignee,
• solid,
• solo,
• something else,
• sonority,
• sonorousness,
• sophisticated,
• spark,
• spectacular,
• spiffing,
• spiffy,
• splendacious,
• splendid,
• splendiferous,
• split the eardrums,
• split the ears,
• sport,
• spread,
• spruce,
• squire,
• squirm,
• startle the echoes,
• stately,
• step up,
• strain,
• strengthen,
• stretch,
• stretching,
• stun,
• stunning,
• style-conscious,
• stylish,
• sufflate,
• sumptuous,
• super,
• superb,
• superfancy,
• superfine,
• surf,
• surge,
• surge of sound,
• swagger,
• swank,
• swanky,
• swell it,
• swell out,
• swell with emotion,
• swellage,
• swelling,
• swollenness,
• symbol,
• tempo mark,
• terrific,
• thoroughbred,
• thrill,
• thrill to,
• thrilling,
• throb,
• thunder,
• tidal bore,
• tidal wave,
• tide wave,
• tie,
• time signature,
• tingle,
• tingle with excitement,
• toss,
• toss and turn,
• tough,
• tremble,
• tricksy,
• trig,
• trim,
• trough,
• tsunami,
• tumble,
• tumefaction,
• tumefy,
• tumescence,
• tumidity,
• tumidness,
• tumor,
• turgescence,
• turgescency,
• turgidity,
• turgidness,
• turn on to,
• twist and turn,
• twitch,
• twitter,
• tympanism,
• tympany,
• undulate,
• undulation,
• up,
• upper-cruster,
• vinculum,
• viscount,
• volume,
• waldgrave,
• water wave,
• wave,
• wavelet,
• wax,
• well-dressed,
• well-groomed,
• wen,
• white horses,
• whitecaps,
• whiz,
• widen,
• wiggle,
• windiness,
• wizard,
• wonderful,
• wriggle,
• writhe