Chapter Sweet-scented to Systematize of S by Soule's Synonymes

2. Enhance, heighten, aggravate.

3. Puff up, make arrogant.

Swell, n.

1. Swelling.

2. Augmentation, protuberance.

3. Elevation, rise.

4. Force, intensity, power, crescendo.

5. Increase of power, increase of rhetorical force.

6. Ascent, elevation.

7. Waves, billows.

8. (Colloq.) Fox, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, blade, buck, fine gentleman, spark, jack-a-dandy, dandiprat, man milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.

Swelling, a. Bombastic, pompous, turgid, inflated, tumid, stilted, grandiloquent, pretentious, high-flowing, high-sounding, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiose.

Swelling, n.

1. Swell.

2. Protuberance, bump, prominence, rise.

Swell out. Bulge, protuberate.

Swelter, v. n. Be oppressed with heat, be overcome by heat, be hot.

Swerve, v. n.

1. Deviate, depart, diverge, turn aside, go astray.

2. Bend, incline, yield, give way.

3. Climb, move upward, swarm, wind.