swell

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Verb

1. To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
2. To cause to become bigger.
3. To grow gradually in force or loudness.
4. To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
5. To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
6. To be raised to arrogance.
7. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
8. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
9. To protuberate; to bulge out.

Noun

1. The act of swelling; increase in size.
2. A bulge or protuberance.
3. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
4. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
5. A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
6. A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
7. A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
8. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9. An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
10. (informal) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
11. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
12. The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

Adj

1. Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
2. (slang) Excellent.

Adv

Very well.

Konzepte

schwellen

anschwellen

Dünung

Seegang

zunehmen

aufblasen

aufquellen

Woge

aufblähen

blähen

sich ausdehnen

Schwellen

sich aufblähen

klasse

vergrößern

vermehren

quellen

wogen

wunderschön

sich weiten

Wogen

wellenförmige Bewegung

ausbeulen

Korpulenz

Feistheit

ausbauchen

sich entzünden

sich auftürmen

sich eine Beule holen

schwere See

sich weiten{vr}

-en

Schwell

Anstieg

anwachsen

aufgehen

aufpumpen

Ausbuchtung

Beleibtheit

dehnen

dilatieren

Geck

höher werden

sich erweitern

steigen

Steigerung

todschick

wachsen

weiten

Synonyme

bulge

expand

rise

inflate

swell up

increase

surge

distend

become swollen

billow

bloat

grow

wave

👋

tumefy

protrude

puff up

dandy

blister

overflow

ripple

swelling

puff

dilate

excellent

fop

intumesce

swollen

smashing

augment

be swollen

blow up

peachy

puff out

beau

tumesce

enlarge

be inflated

great

dude

slap-up

undulate

sheik

groovy

neat

undulation

roller

bulge out

be inflamed

balloon

🎈

eminent

not bad

breaker

corking

uplift

upsurge

grand

wake

warp

wax

well

well up

coxcomb

heave

cracking

bubble up

crestless wave

fashion plate

ridge

increase in volume

increment

roll

expansion

increase in size

extend

fabulous

become inflated

inflation

bang-up

bully

fill

splendiferous

spread

keen

fill up

bump

stem

be dilated

curve out

first-rate

flatulence

blow

stylish

super

choke

swagger

awesome

clotheshorse

nifty

gallant

intumescence

inundate

jut out

knob

lift

lump

macaroni

magisterial

magnification

magnificent

magnify

marvellous

meander

mighty

mount

mushroom

🍄

nice

nob

outstanding

overstate

piling

plump out

popinjay

potent

pretty

project

projection

prominence

protuberance

prove

pump up

put on weight

reach

replete

ride

ridgy

riffle

ripples

rise up

rocket

🚀

rotund

rouse

salient

set up

snob

snowball

soak

soar

spike

splendid

spread out

stand up

stately

sterling

stiff

straighten

stupendous

sublime

superb

supplement

surf

swank

swanky

swells

swing

take off

teem

terrific

tops

run high

trail

transgress

tremendous

tumor

turgidity

turgidness

upgrade

upheaval

uprise

vegetate

waft

waves

whelp

wind

winding

wonderful

worthy

bear fruit

become inflamed

be piled up

be pregnant

bourgeon

get cross

get high

grow larger

inflamation

of the body

of the sea

sea wave

smooth sea

swell out

grow thick

tumefaction

wave motion

heaving sea

get big

round shape

get sulky

rough seas

be choppy

be in discord

vain person

be puffed up

physiosis

uphearal

upswell

crack

diabetes

obesity

pain

tumidness

be puffy

fashionable person

increase in loudness

be/become swollen

become dropsical

cause to

burgeon forth

sound intensifier

ram-off

structural high

luxurious open-handed

be bloated to unfurl

repeator

gain set

expansive power

gibbose bunchy

horse back

sea disturbance

sufflate

rogue wave

dendy

raise a blister

good

👍

big waves

abound

accede

accrue

advance

aggrandize

amount

amplifier

amplify

anus

arise

aristocrat

aristocratic

aristocratical

ascend

attain

augmentation

bag

beautiful

bellied

be promoted

bloated

board

boil

boom

💥

break

build

build up

build-up

bulging

bull

burgeon

burst forth

capital

climb

coagulate

come up

convexity

Corinthian

corpulence

courtly

crescendo

crown

👑

dandified

diabetic

dilatation

disease

distended

distension

distention

dropsical

edema

elevation

eminence

empyreal

empyrean

enlargement

entasis

enter

epic

etc.

exaggerate

exalt

expanding

expanse

fantastic

fashionable

fatness

fill out

fine

firm

flatulency

flood

flow

fluctuation

foppish

form

full

gain

gather

generous

get on

get up

gibbous

glutted

gorgeous

go up

ground swell

heaving

heavy sea

high

horse

🐴

hove

hump

infect

infected

inflame

inflated

intensify

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/swɛl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: swellen

Geerbt von Altenglisch: swellan

Verwandt mit Saterfriesisch: swälle

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: swolle

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: zwellen

Verwandt mit Niederdeutsch: swellen

Verwandt mit Deutsch: schwellen

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: svälla

Verwandt mit Isländisch: svella

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: swelle

In summary

From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian swälle (“to swell”), West Frisian swolle (“to swell”), Dutch zwellen (“to swell”), Low German swellen (“to swell”), German schwellen (“to swell”), Swedish svälla (“to swell”), Icelandic svella. The adjective may derive from the noun.