swell

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
2. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
3. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
4. (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
5. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
6. (intransitive) 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. (countable, uncountable) The act of swelling; increase in size.
2. (countable, uncountable) A bulge or protuberance.
3. (countable, uncountable) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
4. (countable, uncountable) A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
5. (countable, uncountable) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
6. (countable, uncountable) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
7. (countable, uncountable) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
8. (countable, uncountable) A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
9. (countable, uncountable) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
10. (countable, dated, informal, uncountable) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
11. (countable, informal, uncountable) A person of high social standing; an important person.
12. (countable, uncountable) 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. (dated, not-comparable, usually) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
2. (Canada, US, dated, not-comparable, slang, usually) Excellent.

Adv

Very well.

Conceptos

hincharse

hinchar

inflar

marejada

brotar

mar de fondo

aumentar

oleaje

abultar

mar de leva

marejadilla

oleada

👋

engrandecer

inflamarse

inflarse

aventarse

brutal

convexidad

crecida

cundir

dilatarse

distender

engrosar

entumecer

entumecerse

estupendo

gibosidad

hincar

hinchazón

petimetre

expandirse

cundiamor

enrroncharse

abultarse

oleaje swell

oleaje de fondo

marola

hinchada

marejada ''f''

bárbaro

crecer

dilatar

elegante

excelente

genial

hincha

manar

maravilloso

ola

👋

reventar

Sinónimos

bulge

expand

rise

inflate

swell up

increase

surge

distend

bloat

become swollen

billow

wave

👋

grow

protrude

puff up

tumefy

blister

swelling

ripple

dandy

overflow

dilate

puff

intumesce

smashing

swollen

excellent

fop

be swollen

augment

blow up

peachy

puff out

tumesce

groovy

neat

great

undulation

be inflamed

be inflated

beau

slap-up

bulge out

balloon

🎈

enlarge

sheik

dude

roller

undulate

inflation

Traducciones

enfler

gonfler

schwellen

inchar

zwellen

gonfiare

anschwellen

se gonfler

Dünung

houle

aanzwellen

aumentar

Seegang

augmenter

opzwellen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/swɛl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: swellen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: swellan

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: swälle

Cognado con frisón occidental: swolle

Cognado con neerlandés: zwellen

Cognado con bajo alemán: swellen

Cognado con alemán: schwellen

Cognado con sueco: svälla

Cognado con islandés: svella

Heredado de inglés medio: 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.