swell

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

enfler

gonfler

se gonfler

houle

augmenter

sensass

🆒

grossir

s’enfler

être enflé

élargir

agrandir

faire gonfler

type

émaner

croître

dandy

bombement

diabète

se dilater

grandir

h aspiré

lever

magnifique

maladie

mec

merveilleux

mon pote

monter

muguet

obésité

ondoyer

ondulation

onduler

pas mal

pote

🧉

puits

redoubler

rouleau

sensationnel

serpenter

🐍

sinuosité

super

très bien

grosse mer

lame de fond

ballonner

bellâtre

cambrage

corpulence

étendoir

Synonymes

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

Traductions

schwellen

zwellen

inchar

hincharse

gonfiare

anschwellen

hinchar

Dünung

aanzwellen

aumentar

inflar

Seegang

opzwellen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/swɛl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: swellen

Hérité de ancien anglais: swellan

Appartenant à saterlandais: swälle

Appartenant à frison occidental: swolle

Appartenant à néerlandais: zwellen

Appartenant à bas-allemand: swellen

Appartenant à allemand: schwellen

Appartenant à suédois: svälla

Appartenant à islandais: svella

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.