The meaning of Swelling

verb

(especially of a vehicle) begin to move more quickly.

Usage examples:

The car accelerated towards her

verb

Move faster

verb

To move more quickly, or to make something happen faster or sooner

Usage examples:

[ i ] he stepped on the gas and accelerated rapidly to pass a car.

verb

Gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.

Usage examples:

Investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence

noun

A small coloured rubber bag that is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.

Usage examples:

The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

verb

A small coloured rubber bag which is inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a child's toy or a decoration.

Usage examples:

The room was festooned with balloons and streamers

noun

A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage.

Usage examples:

His heels were covered in blisters

verb

Form blisters on the skin or other surface.

Usage examples:

The surface of the door began to blister

verb

Make or become swollen with fluid or gas.

Usage examples:

The fungus has bloated their abdomens

noun

A disease of livestock characterized by an accumulation of gas in the stomach.

Usage examples:

Also, grazing that leaves very short stubble could lead to a greater risk of bloat if livestock are…

verb

Cure (a herring) by salting and smoking it lightly.

Usage examples:

The latter, however, are very agreeable and good for making pickled or bloated herring.

verb

(with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

We asked people to boil their drinking water

noun

The temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

Bring the sauce to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes

noun

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle.

Usage examples:

You can use them to treat sores, bruises, cuts, boils and inflammatory skin conditions.

noun

A rounded swelling which distorts an otherwise flat surface.

Usage examples:

The telltale bulge of a concealed weapon

verb

Swell or protrude to an incongruous extent.

Usage examples:

The veins in his neck bulged

noun

A light blow or a jolting collision.

Usage examples:

A nasty bump on the head

verb

Knock or run into someone or something with a jolt.

Usage examples:

I almost bumped into him

verb

An impact (as from a collision)

noun

A painful swelling on the first joint of the big toe.

Usage examples:

In severe cases, excessive compensation at the level of the mediotarsal joint can lead to the devel…

noun

A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.

Usage examples:

It can be made into a salve or the tincture can be painted on boils, felons, carbuncles, abscesses,…

noun

A large painful swelling under the skin

verb

Make or become wider, larger, or more open.

Usage examples:

Her eyes dilated with horror

verb

To become or make something, esp. an opening, wider or more open

Usage examples:

[ t ] the doctor put drops in my eyes to dilate the pupils.

verb

Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.

Usage examples:

The abdomen distended rapidly

verb

(usually of the stomach or another part of the body) to swell and become large, especially because of pressure from inside

Usage examples:

During digestion, sugar may produce wind that distends the stomach., the medication i take causes m…

noun

Swelling, especially in part of the body, caused by pressure from inside.

Usage examples:

She complained of abdominal distension after meals

noun

The act of swelling and becoming large by pressure from inside, or the result of this

Usage examples:

Gaseous distension of the bowel causes considerable discomfort to the patient., lactose intolerance…

verb

Make or become larger or more extensive.

Usage examples:

They have renovated and enlarged the four-storey building

verb

To become larger, or to cause something to become larger

Usage examples:

The city council voted to enlarge the park., he suffers from an enlarged heart.

verb

To become bigger, or to make something bigger

Usage examples:

The inclusion of customs receipts will enlarge the available pool of money., enlarged business/comp…

noun

The action or state of enlarging or being enlarged.

Usage examples:

Talks on the enlargement of the eu

verb

Increase rapidly.

Usage examples:

The price of tickets escalated

verb

To make or become greater or more serious

Usage examples:

[ t ] sending in more troops would escalate the war., [ i ] our costs escalated considerably over t…

verb

To become more important or serious, or to make something do this

Usage examples:

A problem/crisis/dispute escalates mediation can be used to settle disputes at an early stage and s…

noun

A distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality.

Usage examples:

The males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout

noun

An unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs, or on a plant

Usage examples:

Adult males sometimes have a strange excrescence on the tip of their snouts., no nodular excrescenc…

verb

Become or make larger or more extensive.

Usage examples:

Their business expanded into other hotels

verb

Extend in one or more directions

verb

To increase something in size, number, or importance

Usage examples:

[ i ] the air in the balloon expands when heated., [ t ] they expanded their number of stores signi…

verb

Make or become fat or fatter.

Usage examples:

He could do with some good food to fatten him up

phrasal verb

To give an animal or a thin person a lot of food so that they become fatter

Usage examples:

These cattle are being fattened up for slaughter., humorous you're just trying to fatten me up.

phrasal verb

Write all the required information onto a form

phrasal verb

To become larger

Usage examples:

When john is older and fills out some, he’ll be an outstanding athlete.

phrasal verb

To write or type information in spaces that are provided for it

Usage examples:

The 9m taxpayers obliged to fill out self-assessment forms must file their returns by september 30.

verb

(of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.

Usage examples:

He would watch nick grow to manhood

verb

Increase in size by natural process

abbreviation

Incorporated.

Usage examples:

Northeast airlines inc

abbreviation

Including.

adjective

Short form ofincorporated

Usage examples:

Automated document systems, inc.

verb

Become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.

Usage examples:

Car use is increasing at an alarming rate

noun

A rise in the size, amount, or degree of something.

Usage examples:

An increase of 28.3 per cent

verb

A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous

noun

A localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful, especially as a reaction to injury or infection.

Usage examples:

Steroid injections can have a dramatic effect in reducing inflammation and relieving pain

noun

A red, painful, and often swollen area in or on a part of your body

Usage examples:

Aspirin reduces pain and inflammation., an inflammation of the eye/toe/ear

verb

Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.

Usage examples:

Never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres

verb

To cause an object to increase in size and shape by filling it with air or gas, or (of an object) to become larger as a result of this process

Usage examples:

[ t ] to inflate balloons, [ i ] air bags in cars are designed to inflate automatically on impact.,…

verb

To increase the value or price of something, or to become more valuable or expensive

Usage examples:

People who bought homes years ago have seen the values inflate and property taxes rise with the inf…

verb

Swell up.

Usage examples:

Each woman i take seems to deepen my rage, intumesce my lust, and refine my deviant appetite.

noun

A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

Usage examples:

There was a lump of ice floating in the milk

verb

Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.

Usage examples:

Hong kong and bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures

verb

Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.

Usage examples:

You can like it or lump it but i've got to work

verb

Climb up (stairs, a hill, or other rising surface).

Usage examples:

He mounted the steps

noun

A backing or setting on which a photograph, gem, or work of art is set for display.

Usage examples:

A decorated photograph mount

noun

A mountain or hill (archaic except in place names).

Usage examples:

Mount etna

verb

Obtain from (a number) another which contains the first number a specified number of times.

Usage examples:

Multiply fourteen by nineteen

adverb

In several different ways or respects.

Usage examples:

Multiply injured patients

verb

To add a number to itself a particular number of times

Usage examples:

[ t ] if you multiply 7 by 15 you get 105., [ i ] the viruses multiply within the body.

noun

A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.

Usage examples:

She sautéd the mushrooms in butter

verb

Increase, spread, or develop rapidly.

Usage examples:

Environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s

noun

Any one of many types of fast-growing fungus (= plants without leaves or flowers) with a round top and short stem, many of which are used as food

Usage examples:

Wild mushrooms, mushroom soup, a pizza with mushrooms, if your business were to mushroom, would you…

noun

A point in a network or diagram at which lines or pathways intersect or branch.

Usage examples:

The intersections of two or more such arteries would clearly become major nodes of traffic and urba…

noun

A place where a leaf and stem join on a plant

Usage examples:

A leaf node, new plants may emerge from each node on a stem.

noun

A place where things such as lines or systems join

Usage examples:

A network is a series of points or nodes interconnected by communication paths., instead of creatin…

noun

A small swelling or aggregation of cells in the body, especially an abnormal one.

Usage examples:

The area feels firm but has irregular nodules which can be painful to touch

noun

A small raised area or swelling

Usage examples:

There was a soft nodule on my vocal cord.

verb

Increase rapidly in number; multiply.

Usage examples:

The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s

verb

To increase greatly in number or amount, usually quickly

Usage examples:

Amusement and theme parks are proliferating across the country., the proliferation of cell phones h…

noun

The state of being important, famous, or noticeable.

Usage examples:

She came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s

noun

The state of being easily seen or well known

Usage examples:

Most of the papers give prominence to (= put in a noticeable position) the same story this morning.…

noun

Something that protrudes; a protuberance.

Usage examples:

A protrusion of rock jutted from the mountainside

noun

Something that sticks out from a surface, or the act of doing this

Usage examples:

It has a series of protrusions along its back., the condition results in weight loss, rapid heart b…

noun

A thing that protrudes from something else.

Usage examples:

Some dinosaurs evolved protuberances on top of their heads

noun

Something that sticks out from a surface

Usage examples:

If the plant has been infected you will see dark protuberances along the stems., bunions are bony p…

verb

Move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up.

Usage examples:

The tiny aircraft rose from the ground

noun

An upward movement; an instance of rising.

Usage examples:

The bird has a display flight of steep flapping rises

verb

Move upward

noun

A rocket designed to explode high in the air as a signal or firework.

Usage examples:

The crowd at st heliers bay was a rowdy bunch that year, with music, alcohol, fireworks, skyrockets…

verb

(of a price, rate, or amount) increase very steeply or rapidly.

Usage examples:

The cost of the welfare system has skyrocketed

verb

(esp. of amounts) to rise extremely quickly

Usage examples:

The value of their business skyrocketed last year.

noun

A ball of packed snow, especially one made for throwing at other people for fun.

Usage examples:

They pelted him with snowballs

verb

Throw snowballs at.

Usage examples:

I made sure the other kids stopped snowballing celia

noun

Snow pressed into a ball

Usage examples:

Public support for military action has snowballed.

noun

A pigsty.

Usage examples:

It was a complete sty; papers littered the ground, dirty dishes were in the sink, and the windows w…

verb

Keep (a pig) in a sty.

Usage examples:

The most beggarly place that ever pigs were stied in

noun

An inflamed swelling on the edge of an eyelid, caused by bacterial infection of the gland at the base of an eyelash.

Usage examples:

Usually the staphylococcal bacteria are not concentrated enough to do any harm, but sometimes they …

noun

A sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the tide.

Usage examples:

Flooding caused by tidal surges

verb

(of a crowd or a natural force) move suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.

Usage examples:

The journalists surged forward

noun

A sudden and great increase

Usage examples:

A surge in sales, a surge in the stock market, the young american’s victory touched off a surge of …

verb

Become swollen.

Usage examples:

The tumefied face, the swollen and blackened eyes and lips

noun

The quality of being swollen, or a swollen part of the body, especially caused by sexual excitement

Usage examples:

Erectile dysfunction can mean less tumescence as well as the complete absence of an erection., in t…

noun

A swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.

Usage examples:

She underwent six months of chemotherapy to try to shrink the tumour

noun

A mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness

Usage examples:

They found a malignant tumour in her breast., a benign tumour, a brain tumour

noun

A sticky yellowish mouldable substance secreted by honeybees as the material of a honeycomb; beeswax.

Usage examples:

In the case of the honeycombs, the worker bees secrete small flakes of wax and probably surround th…

verb

Cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it.

Usage examples:

I washed and waxed the floor

verb

(of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.

Usage examples:

The moon waxed full, looming huge upon the speckled expanse.

noun

A leather rim sewn round the edge of a shoe upper to which the sole is attached.

Usage examples:

There was the outline, and around this outline ran a well-defined sewn thread which had, it appeare…

verb

Provide with a welt.

noun

A boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst.

Usage examples:

Throughout the sermon that morning, inman sat staring at ada's neck and listening as monroe repeate…

noun

Old-fashioned spelling of wynn.