swell

(Inglese)

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.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/swɛl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: swellen

Ereditato da inglese antico: swellan

Affine saterfriesisch: swälle

Affine frisone occidentale: swolle

Affine olandese: zwellen

Affine basso tedesco: swellen

Affine tedesco: schwellen

Affine svedese: svälla

Affine islandese: svella

Ereditato da inglese 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.

Concetti

gonfiare

gonfiarsi

aumentare

tumefare

frangenti

protuberanza

eleganza

moto ondoso

ingrossarsi

rigonfiamento

mareggio

ampliare

bellimbusto

damerino

elegantone

enfiare

ganimede

infiammarsi

inflazionare

ingrossare

mare agitato

mare grosso

maretta

onda lunga

ondosità

prominenza

vagheggino

zerbinotto

dandy

gagà

inturgidire

mareggiare

tumefarsi

inturgidirsi

far gonfiare

mare lungo

gonfià

gonfi

cacazibetto

paino

zazzerino

mare corto

mare di fondo

flutti

cicisbeo

crescere

dilatare

fico

figo

giusto

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

enfler

gonfler

schwellen

zwellen

inchar

hincharse

anschwellen

hinchar

se gonfler

Dünung

houle

aanzwellen

inflar

aumentar

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